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[ adjective ] not tense or taut
Synonyms Examples "the old man's skin hung loose and gray" "slack and wrinkled skin" "slack sails" "a slack rope" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Badura-Skoda-Vienna_Konzerthaus ( Westminster ) and Demus-Schubert_Quartet ( Deutsche_Grammophon ) are both warm_toned , pleasantly lyrical , but rather slack and tensionless . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Once covertly looking at Simms_Purdew , the only man in the world whom he hated , he had seen the heavy , slack , bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel , obscene banter , and had seen the pale blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment , and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a noticeable decline in performance
Synonyms Examples : "the team went into a slump" "a sudden slack in output" "a drop-off in attendance" "a falloff in automobile sales" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
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[ verb ] make less active or fast
Examples "He slackened his pace as he got tired" "Don't relax your efforts now" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a stretch of water without current or movement
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[ noun ] dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 3139
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[ noun ] a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
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