Slack

Definition: Slack

Slack

Adjective

1. Not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope".

2. Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip".

3. Flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide; "slack water".

4. Lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline".

Noun

1. A noticeable decline in performance: "the team went into a slump"; "a sudden slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in automobile sales".

2. A stretch of water without current or movement; "suddenly they were in slack water".

3. The condition of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope".

4. A cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took of the slack".

Verb

1. Avoid responsibilities and work, be idle.

2. Be inattentive to, or neglect, as of duties: "He slacks his attention".

3. Release tension on; "slack the rope".

4. Make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired".

5. Become slow or slower; "Production slowed".

6. Make less active or intense.

7. Become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated".

8. Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water, as of lime.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Mining

Post & Telecom

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slack

Coherence

Adjective: nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated; uncombined;

Inactivity

Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.

Insufficiency

Slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of; denuded of; dry, drained.

Insulation, Fire extinction

Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.

Laxity

Adjective: lax, loose; slack; remiss; (careless); weak.

Physical Inertness

Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.

Refrigeration

Damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility) a.

Slowness

Adjective: slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; Verb: reptatorial.

Unwillingness

Adjective: unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse; (opposed); laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent; scrupulous; squeamish; (fastidious); repugnant; (dislike); restiff, restive; demurring; Verb: unconsenting; (refusing); involuntary.

Weakness

Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.

Crosswords: Slack

German (lose).

I'll slack you off, you fuzzy little foreigner. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

At least Turk has you to pick up the slack when it gets too bad. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)

I'm going to night school. Cut me some slack, Jack! (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: John Sayles)

They call her Slack Alice; she's got a mouth like a clown's pocket. (Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire; writing credit: Trevor Preston)

We ain't gonna give anybody any slack. (HANGIN' TOUGH; performing artist: New Kids On The Block)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Paraffin Wax, Microcrystalline Petroleum Wax, Slack Wax, Ozokerite, Lignite Wax, Peat Wax, and Similar Waxes: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Keola Beamer Teaches Hawaiin Slack Key Guitar (reference)

• Six Second Slack (reference)

• Slack [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Slack Line Strategies for Fly Fishing (reference)

• Slack water (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Of Ledward Kaapana (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hawaiian Slack Key Christmas (reference)

• Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Trolley rig - Hauling slack from sounding line prior to sounding Off of ISIS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The floating cross at the mouth of the trap. Excluding the statuette of St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, which is traditionally always the same, each Rais places his own images of saints. The cross serves the functional purpose of helping the fishermen read the currents. Slack water is the most desirable time to start the fishing operation. Credit: Fisheries.

Photograph by M. James Slack, April 1934. (Reproduction Number: HABS NM,31-ACOM,1-32) Visited for the first time by Europeans in 1540, Acoma Pueblo is one of the oldest inhabited villages in the U.S. Located on top of a 357-foot rock mesa, the pueblo was the setting for many confrontations between European colonizers and the Acoma people, including a horrible massacre in 1599 by the Spanish soldiers who controlled the area. These flat-roofed houses made of adobe brick--a Spanish technique--show the Spanish influence on local building traditions. Credit: Library of Congress.

These workers know no slack seasons --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Howard Hughes (right), seated with his attorney T.A. Slack, before testifying before the Senate War Investigating subcommittee. Credit: Library of Congress.

A shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boy hunting for coal on slack pile, Steritz, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.

Homemade pile driver. Men on right run violently backward hoisting hammer on left, then slack off and repeat, thus driving pile to form current diversion. National park area near Winona, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Living quarters and "juke joint" for migratory workers, a slack season; Belle Glade, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

Migratory laborers outside of a "juke joint" during a slack season, Belle Glade, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Her face was wizened and dull, deep gray pouches under blank eyes, and a mouth slack and loose.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The periodic paralyses are inherited disorders of voluntary muscle, characterized by intermittent attacks of weakness, during which affected muscles become slack, weak, and unable to contract. (references)

Business

Since that time, the Japanese recession and slack overseas demand has reduced Japanese robotics production somewhat. (references)

On the other extreme, some factories simply relocate their manufacturing facilities to mainland China to take advantage of slack enforcement of environmental regulations. (references)

Japan led the way for several years, but beginning in the early 1990s, Japan's market for industrial robots switched from rising demand -- sustained by more and more factory automation on the part of automobile makers and electronics companies -- to an era of slack demand for capital goods, including robots. (references)

Economic History

Malaysia

With significant slack in the economy, the outlook for inflation remains favorable. (references)

Slovenia

To some degree, investment will take up the slack, as analysts forecast investment to advance on sale of state assets including portions of the telecommunications, financial, and energy sectors. (references)

Morocco

Moroccan economists expect remittances to trend downward in the future if the European economies (where over 1 million Moroccans live) remain slack, and as ties between the overseas Moroccans and their homeland weaken. (references)

Political Economy

CHILE

World prices for copper, which continues to represent approximately 40 percent of Chile's exports, have declined by 28 percent since late 2000. The value of the peso has also declined by over 25 percent in the same time period, but slack domestic demand has so far prevented businesses from passing price hikes on to consumers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "slack": become slack ♦ Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris ♦ get slack ♦ get slack in one's work ♦ go slack ♦ have a slack ♦ keep a slack hand ♦ keep a slack rein ♦ slack away ♦ slack bus ♦ slack end ♦ slack hand ♦ slack in duty ♦ slack in stays ♦ slack lime ♦ slack off ♦ slack period ♦ slack season ♦ slack selvedge ♦ slack suit ♦ slack tide ♦ slack up ♦ slack water ♦ slack wax ♦ take up the slack ♦ take up the slack in a rope. Additional references.

Beginning with "slack": slack-baked, slack-breasted, slack-jawed, slack-key, slack-lipped, Slack-ma-girdle, slack-mouthed, slack-sailed, Slack-water navigation.

Ending with "slack": dune-slack, frenetic-slack.

Albanian

shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), shtendoset, ndalje (check, discontinuance, discontinuation), burracak (coward, milk-livered, poltroon, rat, recreant), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, lax, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i lirshëm (easy, flowing, fluent), i ngadaltë (creeping, deliberate, dilatory, lingering, long, slow, sluggish), i ngalët (slow, sluggish), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden), i plogët (apathetic, apathetical, clumsy, dull, idle, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, slothful, supine), i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), amulli (inertia, quiescence, quiescency, stagnancy, stagnation), liroj (acquit, cast off, cheapen, detach, discharge, disengage, dismiss, ease, excuse, free, free oneself, let go, let loose, liberate, loose, loosen, pay, pay out, relax, release, slacken, unbind, unstring, vacate), xhoko, ngecje (flounder, haw, locking, stumble), përtaci (idle, idleness, idling, indolence, inoccupation, laziness, sloth), pjesë e lirshme, plogështohem, pluhur qymyri (coal dust, culm), qetësim (appeasement, assuagement, comfort, impassivity, lull, mollification, pacification, propitiation, reassurance, relief, rest, sedation, softening), rezervë kohe, lirohem (become cheaper, loosen). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تثاقل (sluggish), ‏بنطلون فضفاض, ‏راكد (flat, remaining, sluggish, stagnant, static), ‏رخو (flabby, flaccid, lax, limp, loose, quaggy, sluggish, soft), ‏رخي (easy, loose, loosen, mollify, relax, relinquish, unbend, unhand), ‏أهمل عمله, ‏بإهمال (carelessly, heedlessly, idly, negligently), ‏تراخى (loosen, slacken), ‏فترة ركود, ‏غبار الفحم, ‏غير جاد, ‏قليل النشاط, ‏مسترخي (laid back, sleepy), ‏مهمل (abandoned, antiquated, careless, derelict, deserted, discarded, disregarded, disregardful, disused, forgetful, forgotten, forsaken, heedless, ignored, in disuse, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, left out, left over, neglected, neglectful, negligent, no longer of use, obsolete, omitted, out of use, outdated, reckless, refuse, regardless, remiss, sloven, unpointed, waste), ‏فاتر (apathetic, chilly, cold, cool, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, frigid, half hearted, indifferent, languid, listless, lukewarm, spiritless, stagnant, tepid, unenthusiastic, unfriendly), ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

време между прилив и отлив, провис, бавен (creeping, deliberate, dense, dilatory, languid, leaden, leisurely, lingering, long, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slow, sluggish, stagnant, stopping, tardigrade, tardy, unready), луфт (clearance, play, windage), застой (deadlock, depression, dog days, dullness, halt, stagnation, standstill, stasis, tie up), застоял (fuggy, fusty, stagnant, still, stuffy, well-handled), застояла вода (backwater, dead water, ditch water), неподвижен (at rest, attached, fast, fixed, immobile, inelastic, motionless, moveless, put, quiescent, rigid, sessile, set, stationary, statuesque, steadfast, still, stirless, stock-still, unacted), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), небрежно (slapdash), незакрепен (unbedded), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), отпуснато (flabbily, laxly, loosely), отпускам (allocate, allot, ease off, grant, issue, loosen, pay away, pay out, relax, release, slacken, slouch, unbend, unbrace, unfasten, unleash, unrein, untuck, unwind), игра (acting, game, hand, pastime, play, recreation, scamper, sport), хлабав (lax, loose), слаб сезон, слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), ситни въглища, разхлабен (loose, unstrung, unstuck), развинтен, отпускам се (drop, expand, loosen up, open, plump, relax, sit back, unkink, wilt), хлабаво (loosely), отворен (abroach, exposed, flat, open, patent, raw, unclosed, wide), хлабина (play), кръшкам (scrimpshank, skive, skulk, soldier), гася (blow out, extinguish, quench, slake, stifle), въглищен прах (breeze, culm), вяло (half-heartedly), умерен (abstemious, abstinent, conservative, equable, frugal, gentle, medium, mezzo, mild, moderate, philosophical, reasonable, restrained, sober, sparing, temperate, tempered), халтав (lax, loose). (various references)

Chinese 

煤渣 , 松驰 (LAX, slacken, Slackened, slackening, slacks). (various references)

Czech

stagnující (stagnant), slabý (bad, decrepit, delicate, faint, fainting, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, tenuous, wan, watery, weak, weakly, weak-minded, weary), volný (clear, comfortable, for hire, free, lax, liberal, loose, open, spare, svelte, unattached, unoccupied, unrestrained, vacant), nedbalý (careless, casual, lax, neglectful, negligent, offhand, remiss, sloppy, slovenly, unmindful), laxní (casual, dilatory, flabby, half hearted, lax). (various references)

Danish

smaakul (lump coal, rough small coal, unscreened small coal), slæk, bæltenedhæng (slack of track). (various references)

Dutch

speling (caprice, room, space, whim), ruwe fijnkolen (lump coal, rough small coal, unscreened small coal), ongewassen fijnkolen (lump coal, rough small coal, unscreened small coal), nalooptijd (float, float time), naloop (caster, feints, float, float time, tails, wheel caster), doorbuiging van de rupsband (slack of track). (various references)

Farsi 

گشاد (Broad, Loose, Spacious, Wide), دامن اویخته وشل لباس یاهرچیزویخته , شل (Baggy, Knockkneed, Lax, Limp, Loose, Ramshackle), شل کردن (Jellify, Lax, Loosen, Relax, Unbend, Unbind, Unbrace, Unhitch, Unhook, Unloose, Unstring), شلی , انقطاع (Cessation, Curtailment, Letup), ضعیف (Anemic, Atonic, Infirm, Languid, Lean, Light, Puny, Pusillanimous, Rickety, Sappy, Shaky, Slender, Weak), بطی (Cumbersome, Dilatory, Sluggish), سکون (Equilibrium, Inaction, Inertia, Lull, Quiet, Station, Stay), فرونشاندن (Appease, Calm, Curb, Extinguish, Infix, Lull, Pacify, Quash, Quell, Quench, Relieve, Remit, Repress, Sate, Soften, Stanch, Stifle, Suppress, Tranquilize), قطع (Dissection, Excision, Recision, Rupture), کرباسی , کساد (Inactive, Insensitive, Off, Sluggish, Stagnant, Tight), کسادکردن , کسادی (Depression, Recession, Stringency), کند (Ballast, Blunt, Dilatory, Dull, Haunt, Heavy, Late, Lazy, Leaden, Slow, Sluggish, Tardy, Unapt, Unready), پشت گوش فراخ , فراموشکار (Oblivious), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak). (various references)

Finnish

vetelehtiä (dawdle, idle, loaf, loiter, lounge), vetelä (floppy, indolent, sloppy, thin), veltto (indolent, inert, languid, limp), veltostunut (effeminate, weakened), rento (easy, easy-going, limp, relaxed), laimea (dull, indifferent, languid, lukewarm, weak), löyhä (lax irregular, loose), irtonainen (free, limber, loose, separate, unfastened), hiilimurska (cinder-track). (various references)

French

mou (sluggish). (various references)

German

schlaff (baggy, drooping, exhausted, flabbily, flabby, flaccid, flaccidly, floppily, floppy, lax, limp, limply, listless, loose, shattered, slacky, soft, torpid, worn out), lose (free, lax, loose, loosely, mischievous, unbridled, unmounted), flau (depressed, faint, flat, insipid, light, listless, queasy, sluggish, weak). (various references)

Greek 

καρβουνόσκονη (culm), βραδύσ (adagio, largo, leisurely, lento, slow, sluggish, tardy), χαλαρόσ (flaccid, lax, limp, listless, loose), χαλαρότησ (laxity, looseness, slackness), χαλαρότητα (flabbiness, laxity, limpness, looseness, slackness), ακοσκίνιστο κάρβουνο μικρών διαστάσεων (lump coal, rough small coal, unscreened small coal), αναδουλειά, απόρριμα άνθρακοσ, τόξο αλυσίδας (slack of track), ψιλό ακοσκίνιστο κάρβουνο (lump coal, rough small coal, unscreened small coal). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרושל (careless, frowzy, negligent, perfunctory, slapdash, slipshod, slob, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt), מרופ�" (flaccid, loose, relaxed, weakened), ל�"תעצל (be lazy, laze), ל�"תבטל (bum around, fall through, idle, lallygag, laze, loaf, loiter, loll, putter), ל�"תרשל (be negligent, muff, neglect), ל�"רפות (desist, forsake, lay off, let up, relax, temper, unhand), קלישות (flimsiness, superficiality, tenuouseness, thinness), אבק פחם, �"ל�"ול (atrophy, degeneration, depletion, exhaustion, poverty, weakness), רפיון (flabbiness, inertia, inertness, laxation, laxity, limpness, looseness, slackness), רפוי (cure, flabby, healing, indemnity, limp, limping, loose, medication, relaxed, therapy), רפ�" (feeble, flabby, flaccid, languid, lax, limp, limping, loose, soft, weak), � רפ�" (indolent, inert, lazy, sluggish). (various references)

Hungarian

pangó (depressed, sluggish, stagnant), lazulás (chafing, laxity, looseness, relaxation, slackening). (various references)

Indonesian

malas (indolent, lazy, sluggish), lengang (deserted, lonely), kendor (loose, weak), kekenduran, anggal (insignificant, light, lighty loaded). (various references)

Italian

scorrimento (creep, creep deformation, creeping, float, float time, flow, ground water flow, percolation, plastic deformation, plastic flow, pushing, runoff, seepage, shift, sliding, slip, slipping), stagnante (stagnant), morto (breathless, casualty, dead, defunct, dummy, late, there), fare lavativo, fiacco (faint, limp, slow, sluggish, weak, weary), flessione della catenaria (slack of track), giuoco (game, play), lasciare (abandon, allow, desertion, evacuate, forsake, keep, leave, leave behind, leaving, let, lets, loose, quit, release, relinquish, resign, to assume), lento (dull, loose, slow, sluggish, tardy), allentato (sagging), minuti greggi (lump coal, rough small coal, unscreened small coal), negligente (careless, inadvertent, inattentive, lax, negligent, remiss, slapdash, slaphappy), periodo morto (downtime), pigro (idle, Idler, lazy, rottenly, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, truant), polvere di carbone (braize), rilassamento (catharsis, detente, relaxation), minuti di miniera (lump coal, rough small coal, unscreened small coal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� まりの無い (lax, loose), � まりのない (lax, loose), 低調 (dullness, inactive, low tone, slow, sluggish, undertone, weakness), 弛み (dullness, letdown, slackening), スラスト軸受 (klap-skate, slacks, slap-skate, slash character, Slav, slug, thrust bearing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たるみ (dullness, letdown, slackening), しまりのない (lax, loose), スラック , ていちょう (captain, courteous, dullness, hospitable, inactive, low tide, low tone, polite, slow, sluggish, undertone, weakness). (various references)

Korean 

불황기 (slacks). (various references)

Manx

myngheayl, moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), melley (meagre, slower), lhiggey lesh hene (unbending, unbending as person), lhaggid (dimness, feebleness, flatness), lhaggagh (depression), lag (ill, loose, weak), bog (callow, callow of youth, easy, flabby, limp, loose, loose of cough, moist, pulpy, soft, soft-hearted, tender). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackslay

Portuguese

sem ter que fazer (work-shy), sem energia (boneless, characterless, nerveless, pithless, sapless, sluggish, spineless, spiritless, supine), preguiçoso (chair warmer, dawdler, idle, indolent, laggard, lazy, lazybones, lie detector, loaf sugar, loller, lubberly, otioseness, remiss, slacker, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, work-shy), pó de carvão (culm, Duff, grime), negligente (careless, derelict, devil may care, heedless, idle, inadvisable, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, lazy, loose, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, unheeding, unmindful, unwary), lento (blockish, dilatory, drowsy-head, dull, heavy, lagger, lagging, languid, largo, lazy, Leo, plodding, ponderous, slow, slowpoke, sluggish, stick in the mud, tardy), indolente (apathetic, easygoing, idle, indolent, lazy, loafer, lollipop, loud, lounger, lumpish, remiss, shiftless, sleepy, slothful, slowcoach, supine, tardy), folga vertical da corrente (slack of track), flecha da corrente (slack of track), escória de carvão, carvão miúdo (burgee), calmaria (calm, lull). (various references)

Romanian

stinge (allay, annihilate, annul, appease, baste, choke, die, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, hush, quench, quit, silence, slake, smother, wither), stagnare a comerţului, slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), mototol (ball, clew, sleepy, sluggish), bucatã de frânghie, ceda (assign, bend, cave in, cede, come to terms, comply, concede, convey, defer, deliver over, deliver up, demise, give, give way, go, knock under, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, resign, spare, submit, surrender, yield), da drumul la (ease, exhaust, heave, let off, relinquish, slip, spill, stream, volley), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), indolent (careless, easy going, idle, indolent, lazy, nonchalant, remiss, sleepy, slothful, supine, truant, unheeding), lenevi (bum, dawdle, idle, lounge, slug, yawn one's life away), încet (at a slow pace, dawdling, dead alive, deliberate, dilatory, dull, dull-headed, easy, faint, gentle, hist, lagging, lazily, lazy, leasurely, leisurely, lingering, low, slow, slow but steady, slowly, sluggish, soft, still, tardy, time-taking, weak), moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), potoli (becalm, compromise, dulcify, dull, hush, lighten, lull, mollify, quench, quiet, reassure, relieve, slake, smooth, smooth down, sober, solace, stay, still, subdue, suppress, sweeten, temper, tranquillize), trândãvi (dawdle, drone, laze, lie about, loaf, lounge), lipsit de energie (dead-head, flat, lackadaisical). (various references)

Russian 

вялый (apathetic, apathetical, dopey, dopy, drowsy, exanimate, flabby, flaccid, flat, indolent, inert, insipid, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lethargic, listless, remiss, saggy, sapless, sluggish, spiritless, stolid, torpid), игра (game, innings, pastime, performance, piping, play, potato head, racquetball, sporting), бездействие (hibernation, inaction, inactivity, inertia, standstill), ленивый (faineant, floppy, idle, indolent, lazy, ornery, otiose, slothful, supine, work-shy), лодырничать (keep hands in pockets, lallygag, mess about, twiddle one's thumbs), люфт (backlash), зазор (air gap, backlash, clearance, clearing, gap, give, yawn), затишье (lull, standstill), идти вяло, ненатянутость, утолять (allay, quench, slake), гасить известь (slake), тушить кокс, расхлябанный (lax), слабина, слабонатянутый, слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, dim, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, faintish, feeble, fragile, frail, knock kneed, languishing, lax, limp, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, reckling, remiss, slight, soft, tender, unbacked, weak, weakly, wishy washy), угольная пыль (coal-dust), медлительный (costive, dilatory, laggard, lingering, slow, slowcoach, sluggish, tardy). (various references)

Scottish

eirbleach (slack-jointed or crippled person). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatišje (calm, lull), popustiti (cede, defer, ease up, give in, give way to, let up, relax, relent, remit, slacken, unbrace), nezategnuti deo konopca, nemaran (careless, casual, debonair, delinquent, devil may care, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slipshod, sloppy), labavost (laxity, limpness, looseness, slackness), labav (languorous, lax, limp, loose, remiss, unfixed, untight), šljaka (clinker, dross, slag). (various references)

Spanish

parte floja, menudos brutos (lump coal, rough small coal, unscreened small coal), holgura de la cadena (slack of track), gandulear (hack around, have a good mike, idle, loaf, loiter, lounge, lounge about, lounge around, skive, stroll), flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky), flecha (arrow, dart, shaft), estacionario (motionless, stable, stationary). (various references)

Swedish

slapp (flabby, flaccid, flaggy, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, pithless, wet), slak (flabby, flaccid, floppy, loose), loj (apathetic, indolent, remiss, torpid). (various references)

Thai

เฉื่อย (faint), หย่อน (nutant, slacken). (various references)

Turkish

söndürmek (attenuate, damp, damp down, dampen, deflate, douse, dowse, extinguish, hydrate, kill, put out, quench, slacken, slake, snuff out, suffocate, switch off, trample out, turn off, turn out), kaloma, ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty), boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless), durgun su (backwater, dead water, ditchwater, slack water, stagnant water, standing water, still water), durgunluk (backwater, calm, calmness, deadlock, deadness, inaction, inactivity, inanimation, inertness, languor, placidity, recession, recessional, serenity, slackness, slump, stagnancy, stagnation, stillness), durulmak (become clear, clarify, settle, settle down, slack off), gayretsiz (halfhearted, languid), gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck), gevşeklik (enervation, flabbiness, laxity, laxness, limpness, looseness, slackness, softness), gevşemek (come loose, come unstuck, cool down, ease off, fade, flag, get loose, go limp, languish, let go, let up, let upon, loosen, relax, slack off, slacken, soften, unbend, unbrace oneself, unwind, work loose), gevşetmek (ease, enervate, let go, limber up, loosen, loosen up, relax, release, slack off, slack up, slacken, start, unbend, unbrace, unfasten, ungird, unloose, unstring), halatın gevşek ucu, çözmek (break, cipher out, compound, cut loose, decipher, defrost, detach, disengage, disentangle, figure out, loosen, puzzle out, read, reason, resolve, slack up, solve, unbind, unbrace, unbuckle, uncoil, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfix, ungird, unhitch, unlink, unloose, unpick, unravel, unriddle, unrope, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, work out), kömür tozu (coaldust, culm), yavaşlatmak (decelerate, go slow, retard, slacken, slow, slow down), kesat (deadness, flat, slow), koyvermek (allow, let go, release, slack up, slacken, unloose), laçka (backlash, crank, cranky), laçkalaşmak, mıymıntı (drowsy, sleepy, slowpoke, slug, sluggish, stagnant, stick in the mud), mola (bait, baiting, break, breather, breathing space, intermission, pause, recess, stopover, time out), tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slacker, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, tired, torpid, workshy), tembellik etmek (be lazy, drone, fiddle-faddle, fribble, have a laze, laze, laze around, lounge, lounge about, slack off, slacken, slug), teneffüs (break, pause, playtime, recreation, respiration), toz kömür, uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), ihmalci (careless, derelict, forgetful, inattentive, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, remiss, unheedful). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабшати (abate, ebb, fall, impair, pink in, sink, wane, weaken), слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), сповільнювати (gear down, retard, slacken, slow), ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, deaden, debilitate, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), ненатягнута частина, неактивний, затишшя (calm), зазор (air gap, air space, clearance, yawn), бездіяльність (hibernation, inaction, inactivity, non-feasance, otiosity, standstill, torpidity), приглушувати, погано натягнутий, повільний (costive, creeping, laggard, lagger, lagging, languid, leisurely, lingering, logy, slow, sluggish, snail-paced, sulky). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nghỉ ngơi (refreshment, repose, rest), yếu ớt (effeminate, faintly, impuissant, soft, weakly, womanish), uể oải (bloodless, cup, dull, languid, languishing, slothful), phất phơ, nhu nhược (gutless, mild, mildly, remiss, sinewless, wak-hearted), hay sao lãng, dễ bị ảnh hưởng, chậm chạp chùng, chểnh mảng ế ẩm l� m mệt mỏi. (various references)

Welsh

llac (lax, loose). (various references)

laxa, laxate, laxati, laxe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "slack": slacked, slacken, slackened, slackening, slackens, slacker, slackers, slackest, slacking, slackly, slackness, slacknesses, slacks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Csillick, Glack, klack, Oslac, salaci, Saleck, salzach, Sellack, Sellick, silack, sillick, slac, slak, slax, slc, sleck, slicka, sllick, sluck, spack, splack. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: calks, lacks.

-1 letter: calk, cask, lack, lacs, sack.

-2 letters: als, ask, kas, lac, las, sac, sal, ska.

-3 letters: al, as, ka, la.

+1 letter: blacks, caulks, chalks, clacks, clanks, cloaks, flacks, placks, slacks.