Synonyms of the word

slack

• n. (uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
• n. (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
• n. (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
• n. (countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
• adj. Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
• adj. Weak; not holding fast.
• adj. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
• adj. Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
• adj. (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
• adv. Slackly.
• v. To slacken.
• v. (obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
• v. (followed by “off”) to procrastinate; to be lazy.
• v. (followed by “off”) to refuse to exert effort.
• v. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.

abate

• v. (transitive, obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
• v. (intransitive) To become null and void.
• v. (transitive, law) To nullify; make void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To curtail; to deprive.
• v. (transitive) To reduce in amount, size, or value.
• v. (intransitive) To decrease in size, value, or amount.
• v. (transitive) To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
• v. (intransitive) To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
• v. (transitive) To deduct or omit.
• v. (transitive) To bar or except.
• v. (transitive) To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture,…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To destroy, or level to the ground.
• n. Abatement.
• v. (intransitive, law) To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir…
• n. An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.

bog

• n. (Originally Ireland and Scotland) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms…
• n. (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner…
• n. (uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
• n. (vulgar Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically…
• n. (Australia and New Zealand slang) An act or instance of defecation.
• n. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
• v. (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland, especially.
• v. (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland, especially.
• v. (intransitive, Originally vulgar Britain, now chiefly Australia) To shit, to void one's bowels.
• v. (transitive, Originally vulgar Britain, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with shit, to defile…
• v. (transitive, Britain, informal) To make a mess of something.
• n. (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
• adj. (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
• n. (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
• v. (euphemistic, slang, Britain, usually with "off") To go away.

cord

• n. A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such…
• n. A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled…
• n. A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or…
• n. (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
• n. (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
• n. Dated form of chord: musical sense.
• n. Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
• v. To furnish with cords.
• v. To tie or fasten with cords.
• v. To flatten a book during binding.
• v. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

debris

• n. Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
• n. Litter and discarded refuse.
• n. The ruins of a broken-down structure.
• n. (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

declension

• n. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective…
• n. (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

deterioration

• n. The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

detritus

• n. (countable, chiefly geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
• n. (biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
• n. debris or fragments of disintegrated material.

diminish

• v. (transitive) To make smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller.
• v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
• v. (intransitive) To taper.
• v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
• v. To take away; to subtract.

drop-off

• n. A sudden downward slope.
• n. A sudden decrease (such as in the level of sales).

dust

• n. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically…
• n. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
• n. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
• n. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
• n. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
• n. (figuratively) Something worthless.
• n. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.
• n. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
• n. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
• v. (transitive) To remove dust from.
• v. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
• v. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
• v. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
• v. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
• v. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

falloff

• n. A reduction or decline.

fiddle

• n. (music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of…
• n. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
• n. An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
• n. A fraud; a scam.
• n. (nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects…
• v. To play aimlessly.
• v. To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
• v. (music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
• v. To touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way, or tinker with something in an attempt…

flaccid

• adj. Flabby.
• adj. Soft; floppy.
• adj. Lacking energy or vigor.

goldbrick

• n. A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; (figuratively) a swindle, a con.
• n. (US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
• n. (US slang, dated) A swindler.
• v. (US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
• v. (US slang, dated) To swindle.

hydrate

• n. (chemistry) A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
• n. (inorganic chemistry, rare) Water.
• v. (transitive) To take up, consume or become linked to water.
• v. (slang) To drink water.
• v. (programming) To load data from a database record into an object's variables.

junk

• n. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
• n. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
• n. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
• n. (slang) Genitalia.
• n. (nautical) Salt beef.
• n. Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces,…
• n. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
• v. (transitive) To throw away.
• v. (transitive) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop).
• n. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

lax

• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.
• adj. lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
• adj. loose; not tight or taut.
• adj. lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
• adj. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
• adj. (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
• n. (slang) Lacrosse.

lessen

• v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
• v. (intransitive) To become less.

limp

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen; befall; chance.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come upon; meet.
• adj. flaccid; flabby, like flesh.
• adj. lacking stiffness; flimsy.
• adj. (of a penis) not erect.
• adj. (of a man) not having an erect penis.
• adj. physically weak.
• v. (intransitive) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
• n. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore…
• v. (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
• v. (poker slang, intransitive) To call.
• n. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
• n. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
• n. A code-word among Jacobites, standing for Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of…

loose

• v. (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
• v. (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
• v. (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
• v. (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
• v. (archery) to shoot (an arrow).
• v. (obsolete) To set sail.
• v. (obsolete) To solve; to interpret.
• adj. Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
• adj. Not held or packaged together.
• adj. Not under control.
• adj. Not fitting closely.
• adj. Not compact.
• adj. Relaxed.
• adj. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
• adj. Indiscreet.
• adj. (dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
• adj. (dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
• n. (archery) The release of an arrow.
• n. (obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
• n. (rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
• n. Freedom from restraint.
• n. A letting go; discharge.
• interj. (archery) begin shooting; release your arrows.
• v. Misspelling of lose.

loosen

• v. To make loose.
• v. To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
• v. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.

looseness

• n. The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached…
• n. A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
• n. Moral laxity; licentiousness.

minify

• v. To make smaller.
• v. To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase…
• v. (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to…

mire

• n. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
• n. An undesirable situation, a predicament.
• v. To weigh down.
• v. To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
• v. To soil with mud or foul matter.
• n. (obsolete) An ant.

morass

• n. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
• n. Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.

neglect

• v. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
• v. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
• v. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
• n. The act of neglecting.
• n. The state of being neglected.
• n. Habitual lack of care.

negligent

• adj. Careless, without appropriate or sufficient attention.
• adj. (law) Culpable due to negligence.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

quag

• n. (obsolete) quagmire; marsh; bog.

quagmire

• n. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
• n. (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
• v. (transitive) To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.

relax

• v. (transitive) To calm down.
• v. (transitive) To make something loose.
• v. (intransitive) To become loose.
• v. (transitive) To make something less severe or tense.
• v. (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
• v. (transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
• v. (intransitive, of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.
• v. (transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

rubble

• n. The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
• n. (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring…
• n. (Britain, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran,…

shirk

• v. (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
• v. (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
• v. (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
• n. one who shirks.
• n. (Islam) the unforgivable sin of idolatry.

slacken

• v. (intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
• v. (transitive) To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
• v. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.

slackness

• n. The state of being slack; the quality of having slack.

slake

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To slacken; to become relaxed or loose.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go out; to become extinct.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish.
• v. (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
• v. (transitive) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.

slow

• adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding…
• adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
• adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
• adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
• adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
• adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
• adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
• v. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
• v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
• n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
• n. (music) A slow song.
• adv. Slowly.

slump

• v. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
• v. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
• v. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
• v. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
• v. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
• n. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance,…
• n. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard…
• n. (Scotland, Britain, dialect) A boggy place.
• n. (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
• n. (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• n. (slang, by extension) A period when the person lives without sex when sex is expected or desired.

standing

• v. present participle of stand.
• adj. Erect, not cut down.
• adj. Performed from an erect position.
• adj. Remaining in force or status.
• adj. Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
• adj. Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
• adj. Not movable; fixed.
• n. Position or reputation in society or a profession.
• n. Duration.
• n. The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
• n. (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
• n. (Britain) room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles.
• n. (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the…

stretch

• v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
• v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
• v. (transitive) To pull tight.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
• v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
• v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
• v. (transitive) To increase.
• v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
• v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
• n. An act of stretching.
• n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
• n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
• n. A segment of a journey or route.
• n. A segment or length of material.
• n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
• n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
• n. A length of time.
• n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

weak

• adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
• adj. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
• adj. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible;…
• adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
• adj. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including.
• adj. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
• adj. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
• adj. (slang) Bad or uncool.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted…
• adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
• adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
• adj. Lacking in vigour or expression.
• adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
• adj. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
• adj. (photography) Lacking contrast.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

worsening

• v. present participle of worsen.
• n. A worse situation; an aggravation.