Adjective: slack
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | slacker |
| Superlative | slackest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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a slack rope
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a slack hand
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a slack oven
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a slack wind
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slack in duty or service
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The Lord is not ſlacke cõcerning his promiſe (as ſome men count ſlackneſſe)[…]. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Peter 3:9, column 2:]
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Business is slack.
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the slack period following the main tourist season
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“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just for that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.” [1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 3, in Well Tackled!:]
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In the slack hours the service is maintained by single motor-coaches. [1940 December, “Notes and News: Waterloo & City Tube Modernisation”, in Railway Magazine, page 668:]
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the slack capacity of an oil pipeline
Adjectives inflected like slack
sallow,
smooth,
slight,
sleigh,
sordid,
somber,
shweet,
shrill,
shrewd,
yellow,
yaller,
hard knock,
DRY,
Greek,
cut short,
unquiet,
unclean,
indiscreet,
chipper,
straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English slak, from Old English slæc (“slack”), from Proto-Germanic *slakaz. For sense of coal dust, compare slag.
Verbs referencing "slack"
Irish Adjectives
lag.