Word Meanings - SLACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. Raymond.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLACK)

• Damp
• blunt
• dishearten
• quench
• slack
• moderate
• humid
• wet
• moist
• discourage
• discountenance
• repress
• Lax
• Loose
• vague
• incoherent
• dissolute
• licentious
• unprincipled
• remiss
• flabby
• Remiss
• Slack
• careless
• negligent
• i attentive
• wanting
• flow
• slothful
• idle
• lax
• dilatory
• tardy
• remissful
• Slow
• Sluggish
• inactive
• Inert
• lazy
• unready
• late
• gradual
• tedious
• dull
• lingering

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SLACK)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to SLACK)

• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• DISSOLUTE
  1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• MOISTNESS
  The quality or state of being moist.
• HUMIDNESS
  Humidity.
• LINGERING
  1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• OVERLINGER
  To cause to linger; to detain too long. Fuller.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.