What is another word for slack?
1066 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ slˈak], [ slˈak], [ s_l_ˈa_k]Table of Contents
Similar words for slack:- all (adjective)
- baggy (adjective)
- delinquent (adjective)
- derelict (adjective)
- dilatory (adjective)
- dissolute (adjective)
- dormant (adjective)
- down (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- fallow (adjective)
- flabby (adjective)
- flaccid (adjective)
- floppy (adjective)
- forgetful (adjective)
- inactive (adjective)
- inefficient (adjective)
- inert (adjective)
- insensitive (adjective)
- late (adjective)
- lazy (adjective)
- lazy, negligent (adjective)
- leisurely (adjective)
- limp (adjective)
- listless (adjective)
- loose (adjective)
- loose, baggy; inactive (adjective)
- negligent (adjective)
- off (adjective)
- reduced (adjective)
- regardless (adjective)
- relaxed (adjective)
- reluctant (adjective)
- remiss (adjective)
- shiftless (adjective)
- slack (adjective)
- slovenly (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- slow-footed (adjective)
- slow-going (adjective)
- slow-paced (adjective)
- sluggish (adjective)
- stuporous (adjective)
- tardy (adjective)
- unconfined (adjective)
- unsuccessful (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- unworkmanlike (adjective)
- careless (noun)
- die away (noun)
- drop-off (noun)
- falling off (noun)
- falloff (noun)
- let-up (noun)
- limp (noun)
- looseness, excess (noun)
- slack (noun)
- slowdown (noun)
- ease (verb)
- goof off (verb)
- loaf (verb)
- quiet (verb)
- relax (verb)
- remit (verb)
- rest (verb)
- shirk (verb)
- skulk (verb)
- slacken (verb)
- slake (verb)
- still (verb)
- untighten (verb)
- other synonyms
- decrease
- drop-off
- let-up
- quiet
- relax
- rest
- skulk
- slacken
- unfastened
Synonyms for Slack:
adj.
•all (adjective) •baggy (adjective)- more ill-fitting,
- over-size,
- ill fitting,
- most illfitting,
- most oversize,
- un shapelier,
- most sagging,
- un-shapelier,
- un-shapely,
- un shapeliest,
- illfitting,
- unshapeliest,
- more ill fitting,
- unshapelier,
- more billowing,
- most ill-fitting,
- over size,
- more oversize,
- un-shapeliest,
- more sagging,
- un shapely,
- most ill fitting,
- most billowing,
- more illfitting.
- dis-regardful,
- un-paid,
- most behind,
- dis regardful,
- more procrastinating,
- redhanded,
- red handed,
- re-prehensible,
- un paid,
- over due,
- most procrastinating,
- more behind,
- lax,
- over-due,
- re prehensible,
- most defaultant,
- more offending,
- unpaid,
- more defaultant,
- most offending.
- de-relict,
- de relict,
- un dependable,
- un reliable,
- un-reliable,
- un-dependable,
- un trustworthy,
- un-trustworthy.
- lecherous,
- on the take,
- gone bad,
- wayward,
- night owl,
- sybaritic,
- in the fast lane,
- lascivious,
- high living,
- nighthawk.
- in-operative,
- pre patent,
- most slumbering,
- most sidelined,
- most smoldering,
- most prepatent,
- more sidelined,
- more slumbering,
- most hibernating,
- out action,
- on shelf,
- more smoldering,
- on the shelf,
- more hibernating,
- suspended,
- pre-patent,
- in operative,
- more prepatent.
- de-pressed,
- de pressed,
- dis heartened,
- dis-heartened,
- most chapfallen,
- more disheartened,
- more chapfallen,
- most disheartened.
- more unseeded,
- un planted,
- un-developed,
- un developed,
- more unplowed,
- un seeded,
- most unplanted,
- more untilled,
- un-productive,
- un productive,
- virgin,
- un-plowed,
- most unplowed,
- most unseeded,
- un used,
- more unplanted,
- neglected,
- un tilled,
- un-seeded,
- un-cultivated,
- un-tilled,
- un-used,
- most untilled,
- un cultivated,
- un-planted,
- un plowed.
- in-elastic,
- in elastic,
- more emasculated,
- more enfeebled,
- most enfeebled,
- most emasculated,
- more sapped,
- most sapped.
- be-mused,
- asleep job,
- unmindful,
- out it,
- like absentminded professor,
- un-mindful,
- like an absent minded professor,
- more woolgathering,
- most nirvanic,
- not the job,
- more amnemonic,
- not job,
- most amnemonic,
- in-attentive,
- like absent-minded professor,
- out lunch,
- more airheaded,
- most mooning,
- most amnesic,
- not on job,
- un witting,
- out to lunch,
- asleep the job,
- more amnesic,
- pre-occupied,
- like absent minded professor,
- like an absentminded professor,
- pipe dreaming,
- more mooning,
- pre occupied,
- un mindful,
- most woolgathering,
- un-witting,
- in attentive,
- most airheaded,
- be mused,
- more nirvanic.
- somnolent,
- fallow,
- do nothing,
- in holding pattern,
- jobless,
- out of service,
- low key,
- mothballed,
- on hold.
- dis-organized,
- in-competent,
- improficient,
- inefficient,
- incapable,
- in-capable,
- in effectual,
- un skillful,
- un qualified,
- in capable,
- more improficient,
- half baked,
- un-trained,
- in-effective,
- in-effectual,
- ineffective,
- un trained,
- in expert,
- dis organized,
- more ineffective,
- un skilled,
- cant hack it,
- in-efficacious,
- in efficient,
- in competent,
- halfbaked,
- in-efficient,
- un-prepared,
- in-expert,
- un prepared,
- most improficient,
- un-qualified,
- in effective,
- un-skillful,
- un-skilled,
- in efficacious.
- dull.
- most unenergetic,
- unpersevering,
- most unready,
- un-energetic,
- most slow-moving,
- most slow moving,
- most unpersevering,
- most unindustrious,
- un concerned,
- more slow-moving,
- more unenergetic,
- slowmoving,
- more unready,
- more unindustrious,
- more unpersevering,
- snoozier,
- more slowmoving,
- un energetic,
- un persevering,
- un-industrious,
- un-concerned,
- unindustrious,
- un industrious,
- un-ready,
- most slowmoving,
- un ready,
- snooziest,
- un-persevering,
- more slow moving,
- slow moving.
- uninterested,
- insouciant,
- more energyless,
- more mopish,
- un interested,
- most mopish,
- most energyless,
- un-interested.
- disjointed,
- unfastened,
- unbound,
- non-cohesive,
- unsecured,
- disconnected,
- unattached,
- broken,
- discontinuous,
- unconfined,
- at large,
- unbolted,
- non-coherent,
- Unhooked,
- non-adherent,
- unshackled,
- uncaged,
- inconsistent,
- unpinned,
- disarticulated,
- nonadhesive,
- incoherent,
- unlatched,
- not fitting,
- detached.
- asleep switch,
- in curious,
- in advertent,
- more unheedful,
- more discinct,
- un thinking,
- un-heedful,
- un heedful,
- in-advertent,
- most unheedful,
- un-thinking,
- in-curious,
- most discinct.
- dis pleasing,
- most mortifying,
- more unrewarding,
- more decomposed,
- lowquality,
- dis-heartening,
- sub standard,
- most decomposed,
- dis-pleasing,
- more disheartening,
- not to snuff,
- not up to snuff,
- dis appointing,
- more mortifying,
- de-composed,
- dis-appointing,
- most unrewarding,
- most disheartening,
- not snuff,
- un-satisfactory,
- de composed,
- un-rewarding,
- not up snuff,
- not to par,
- un satisfactory,
- sub-standard,
- not up par,
- not par,
- most turned,
- more turned,
- dis heartening,
- un rewarding.
- dis-regarding,
- more nonobservant,
- un feeling,
- unheeding,
- dis regarding,
- in-sensitive,
- un heeding,
- un-heeding,
- non observant,
- in sensitive,
- most disregarding,
- most nonobservant,
- non-observant,
- more disregarding.
- in disposed,
- more demurring,
- most uneager,
- dis inclined,
- dis-inclined,
- in-disposed,
- un eager,
- un-eager,
- most demurring,
- in voluntary,
- more grudging,
- more uneager,
- most grudging,
- in-voluntary.
- long delayed,
- gradual,
- unpunctual,
- impeded,
- time-consuming,
- snaillike,
- slow-going,
- tortoiselike,
- long-delayed,
- slowest,
- slow-footed,
- slow-paced.
n.
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- avoid,
- skip,
- flinch from (doing) something,
- relaxed,
- get out of,
- evade,
- wriggle out of (doing) something,
- abstain,
- stay out of,
- duck out of.
- limp.
v.
•ease (verb)- dis entangling,
- dis entangled,
- dis-entangled,
- dis-entangle,
- in-duces,
- re moved,
- in duce,
- in-duce,
- dis entangle,
- in-sert,
- dis-entangles,
- in duces,
- re-moving,
- re moving,
- sets right,
- in sert,
- re move,
- dis-entangling,
- re-move,
- dis entangles,
- re-moves.
- drag ones feet,
- dragging one feet,
- putzes around,
- took easy,
- drags ones feet,
- drags one feet,
- dragged feet,
- dragging feet,
- drag one feet,
- fiddles around,
- dogging it,
- fluffs off,
- screwing off,
- screws off,
- fiddled around,
- dogged it,
- dogs it,
- bumming around,
- monkeys around,
- drags feet,
- takes easy,
- bummed around,
- bums around,
- take easy,
- dragged one feet,
- putzed around,
- dragging ones feet,
- lollygagged,
- dragged one's feet,
- putzing around,
- dragging one's feet,
- took it easy,
- taking easy,
- screwed off,
- drags one's feet,
- fluffed off,
- dragged ones feet,
- fiddling around,
- fluffing off,
- monkeyed around.
- art slothful,
- art unoccupied,
- passed time,
- were inactive,
- stood around,
- is slothful,
- art inactive,
- not lift a fingering,
- lounges around,
- lounged around,
- slowing down,
- lounging around,
- passes time,
- are slothful,
- wert slothful,
- being slothful,
- sitting around,
- was slothful,
- not lift fingers,
- wast inactive,
- stands around,
- wast slothful,
- am unoccupied,
- is unoccupied,
- are inactive,
- not lift fingering,
- wert indolent,
- not lift a fingered,
- was inactive,
- wast indolent,
- whiled away hours,
- not lift a fingers,
- being indolent,
- wert inactive,
- are unoccupied,
- not lift fingered,
- not lift finger,
- slows down,
- is inactive,
- were indolent,
- wast unoccupied,
- art indolent,
- are indolent,
- wert unoccupied,
- was indolent,
- am slothful,
- sate around,
- is indolent,
- passing time,
- standing around,
- sits around,
- were unoccupied,
- was unoccupied,
- whiling away hours,
- whiles away hours,
- sat around,
- were slothful.
- button lip,
- be calm,
- takes the bite out of,
- cooling out,
- be calming,
- holds down,
- be-calmed,
- button ones lip,
- patching things up,
- sub dues,
- button one lip,
- cunning it,
- clams up,
- in activating,
- be calms,
- held it down,
- softpedal,
- cooling it,
- holding it down,
- patched things up,
- cools out,
- in-activating,
- dummies up,
- cools it,
- taking the bite out of,
- in-activate,
- in-activates,
- couldst it,
- in activate,
- sub due,
- took bite out of,
- could it,
- canned it,
- cooled out,
- holds it down,
- took the bite out of,
- be-calms,
- sub-dues,
- dummying up,
- sub-due,
- be-calm,
- be calmed,
- cooled it,
- canst it,
- take bite out of,
- patches things up,
- in activates,
- takes bite out of,
- be-calming,
- in-activated,
- in activated,
- taking bite out of,
- canning it.
- loses speed,
- re-duce,
- eases off,
- re-duces,
- re duce,
- losing speed,
- eased off,
- re lax,
- re duces,
- re-lax,
- lost speed.
- de lays,
- de-creased,
- de lay,
- de creases,
- re peal,
- re-pealed,
- intermits,
- pro rogued,
- re peals,
- de-creasing,
- re leases,
- pro-rogue,
- re spite,
- pro-rogued,
- eases up,
- re spites,
- pro rogue,
- re-leases,
- re-spiting,
- re-spited,
- re pealed,
- pro-rogues,
- de-creases,
- de crease,
- de-lay,
- de creased,
- de creasing,
- de-crease,
- re spited,
- re-lease,
- pro rogues,
- fell away,
- pro roguing,
- re pealing,
- de-lays,
- easing up,
- pro-roguing,
- re spiting,
- re-peals,
- re lease,
- re-spites.
- composing oneself,
- took five,
- re posed,
- composed oneself,
- sate down,
- taking time out,
- un-bends,
- take nap,
- takes a break,
- re-sting,
- lied still,
- re-clines,
- taking five,
- is at ease,
- took break,
- refreshes oneself,
- wast at ease,
- taking a nap,
- art comfortable,
- am at ease,
- un-winding,
- wert comfortable,
- lies by,
- being comfortable,
- lied down,
- winds down,
- un wound,
- be ease,
- unlaxes,
- un bent,
- art at ease,
- take break,
- puts feet up,
- un lax,
- being ease,
- un bended,
- was comfortable,
- un-wind,
- unlaxed,
- takes five,
- takes time out,
- wert at ease,
- takes nap,
- sitting down,
- slacks off,
- refreshing oneself,
- re sting,
- re-pose,
- takes break,
- refreshed oneself,
- un winding,
- un-lax,
- unlaxing,
- re-cline,
- are at ease,
- un bend,
- re clines,
- re pose,
- are comfortable,
- composes oneself,
- took ten,
- un bending,
- taking break,
- taking nap,
- wert ease,
- wast comfortable,
- slacked off,
- took time out,
- were comfortable,
- lying still,
- lied by,
- un bends,
- was at ease,
- stretching out,
- took a nap,
- wound down,
- taking ten,
- lies still,
- took a break,
- putting feet up,
- un-bending,
- sits down,
- being at ease,
- un-bent,
- takes life easy,
- un wind,
- were at ease,
- are ease,
- un-winds,
- lying by,
- re cline,
- lay still,
- took nap,
- un-bended,
- were ease,
- is comfortable,
- un-wound,
- wast ease,
- took life easy,
- un winds,
- is ease,
- takes ten,
- re-posed,
- am comfortable,
- taking life easy,
- un-bend,
- winded down,
- was ease,
- am ease.
- by passing,
- by passed,
- gets around,
- gat around,
- lies down job,
- lying down on job,
- lay down on job,
- lied down on job,
- by pass,
- lies down on job,
- gotten around,
- lie down job,
- sloughed off,
- shuffled off,
- sloughing off,
- lied down job,
- lying down job,
- lay down job,
- shuffles off,
- by passes,
- shuffling off.
- conceals oneself,
- concealing oneself,
- lie wait,
- lied in wait,
- lies wait,
- lies in wait,
- lied wait,
- lying wait.
- dis integrates,
- dis-integrates,
- relaxedded,
- dis integrate,
- dis integrated,
- dis-integrate,
- relaxedding,
- relaxeds,
- re-fresh,
- dis integrating,
- dis-integrating,
- re freshes,
- re-freshes,
- dis-integrated.
- decreased volume,
- decreasing volume,
- decreases volume,
- smooths over,
- smoothing over,
- smoothed over,
- balming.
- clears way,
- attending to,
- un-tighten,
- dis-burdening,
- clear way,
- letting up on,
- clearing the way,
- dis burdened,
- pro-moting,
- runs interference for,
- dis burden,
- let upon,
- dis engages,
- opening door,
- cleared the way,
- letted up on,
- ran interference for,
- dis-burdened,
- letted upon,
- pro-mote,
- dis-engage,
- pro moting,
- lets up on,
- dis-burdens,
- un-tightening,
- opening the door,
- opens the door,
- dis-engaging,
- makes easier,
- running interference for,
- un-tightens,
- dis-engages,
- dis burdening,
- dis-burden,
- letting upon,
- un tightening,
- clears the way,
- un tighten,
- lets upon,
- speeds up,
- cleared way,
- attends to,
- dis engaging,
- dis engage,
- un tightened,
- pro-motes,
- opened door,
- un tightens,
- clearing way,
- opens door,
- making easier,
- un-tightened,
- dis burdens.
Other synonyms:
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- indolent,
- off-season,
- underemployed,
- off-peak,
- reshuffle,
- off-duty,
- David and Goliath,
- fuel,
- subdued,
- sleepy.
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- breakup,
- low gear,
- available,
- lull,
- eviscerate,
- dismember,
- availability,
- leisure,
- idly,
- neglectful,
- dog days.
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- free-floating,
- undone,
- peace,
- closed,
- unsupported,
- loosely.
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- wobbly.
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- disregard.
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- neglect.
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- clear.
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- soft.
- iced,
- take the bite out of,
- held down,
- dummy up,
- inactivates,
- quietened,
- hold it down,
- hold down,
- inactivating,
- clamming up,
- clammed up,
- inactivate,
- clam up,
- cool out,
- dummied up,
- patch things up,
- inactivated,
- cool it,
- quieten,
- can it.
- relaxes,
- laxed,
- easing off,
- lose speed,
- laxing,
- laxes,
- ease off.
- stretched out,
- drowse,
- sat down,
- take time out,
- winding down,
- be comfortable,
- take five,
- be at ease,
- wind down,
- take ten,
- refresh oneself,
- stretch out,
- compose oneself,
- slack off,
- taking a break,
- put feet up,
- Slumbered,
- unbend,
- lay by,
- unbent,
- take a break,
- Drowsed,
- drowses,
- lies down,
- slacking off,
- unlax,
- takes a nap,
- lie by,
- lying down,
- lie down,
- take life easy,
- sit down,
- lie still,
- unbended,
- unbends,
- take a nap,
- Resting,
- drowsing,
- lay down.
Paraphrases for Slack:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
lax.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
Slackened.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
slackening, slowdown, weakness, slow-down, slowing, rope, deceleration.
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Noun, singular or mass
Antonyms for Slack:
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adj.
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loose, baggy; inactive
strong, active, intelligent, alert, lively, stiff, rigid, tight, taut, disciplined, quick, smart.
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Other antonyms:
harsh, conscientious, guarded, wary, fastened, chary, thoughtful, stuck, stern, snug, meticulous, punctilious, circumspect, observant, painstaking, forethoughtful, attentive, fast, heedful, scrupulous, watchful, restrained, restricted, wedged, constrained, regardful, thinking, mindful, jammed, severe, foresighted, gingerly, provident, vigilant, concerned, regarding, interested, tied, bound, responsible, cautious, attached, fussy, running.
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loose, baggy; inactive
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n.
Homophones for Slack:
- suslik, siliceous, shoe lace, salicaceae, scalic, sleek, slag, schoolhouse, sexless, sulawesi, seychelles, selachii, seleucus, suillus, syllogise, slough, saw log, soulless, silica, sulcus, sluice, salish, Seljuk, schulz, salsa, Sao Louis, socialize, shellac, shillelagh, sleaze, silicious, slowcoach, soleus, siliqua, scale wax, sales, scoliosis, sulky, saclike, scallywag, syllogize, shell-less, slash, salacious, sills, Siskiyou Lewisia, skulk, slush, sea louse, slask, soliloquy, shylock, soul kiss, shoeless, solace, sleigh, shellac wax, Seleucus I, sialis, shellack, silky oak, slick, sluiceway, scalage, sociology, slouch, Sauce Louis, silesia, sacculus, silk oak, slews, sluggish, sash lock, shoelace, shekels, shigellosis, salix, slosh, silk, squelch, saxicolous, sulk, slake, sloughy, silex, slice, skywalk, scalawag, silks, saluki, scalelike, saw logs, shell shock, slushy, sclk, silique, sexualise, sea slug, saw-like, slezsko, slacks, sleazy, sexualize, sillago, soleless, silage, suchlike, sls, socialise, shlock, silky, souslik, seles, slouchy, soliloquise, soliloquize, schlock, scaleless, seychellois, salk, slog, squalus, silicosis, slug.