Slack

Kannada Meaning

English Meaning

1. Moving slowly; sluggish: a slack pace.
2. Lacking in activity; not busy: a slack season for the travel business.
3. Not tense or taut; loose: a slack rope; slack muscles. See Synonyms at loose.
4. Lacking firmness; flaccid: a slack grip.
5. Lacking in diligence or due care or concern; negligent: a slack worker. See Synonyms at negligent.
6. Flowing or blowing with little speed: a slack current; slack winds.
7. Linguistics Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed; lax.
8. To make slower or looser; slacken.
9. To be careless or remiss in doing: slack one's duty.
10. To slake (lime).
11. To be or become slack.
12. To evade work; shirk.
13. A loose part, as of a rope or sail.
14. A lack of tension; looseness.
15. A period of little activity; a lull.
16. A cessation of movement in a current of air or water.
17. An area of still water.
18. Unused capacity: still some slack in the economy.
19. Casual trousers that are not part of a suit.
20. In a slack manner: a banner hanging slack.
21. slack off To decrease in activity or intensity.
22. cut Slang To make an allowance for (someone), as in allowing more time to finish something.
23. A mixture of coal fragments, coal dust, and dirt that remains after screening coal.
24. Chiefly British A small dell or hollow.
25. Chiefly British A bog; a morass.