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slack

/slak/

US pronunciation

American sound/slak/

slack

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> slack

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ပေ့ါဆသော။တက်ကြွမှုမရှိသော။နှေးကွေးသော။

Full entry

slack¹ /slæk/ adj (-er , -est )

၁။ မတင်းသော။ လျော့သော။ a slack rope ❍ his slack, half-open mouth ❍ Let the reins go slack.
၂။ (အရောင်းအဝယ်၊ လုပ်ငန်း) ပါးသော၊ ထိုင်းသော၊ အေးသော။ a slack period ❍ times of slack demand ❍ Trade is slack at the moment.
၃။ (derog ) (က) ပေါ့ဆသော။ ပျင်းရိသော။ be slack in one's work. (ခ) လျော့ရဲသော။ Discipline in the classroom is very slack. ❍ The conference organization was rather slack.
v အပျင်းထူသည်။ ခိုကတ်သည်။ Stop slacking and get on with your work!
n [U]
၁။ အိကျနေသော၊ အိုင့်နေသော၊ အိုက်နေသော အပိုင်း။ too much slack in the tow-rope.
၂။ (အရောင်းအဝယ်၊ လုပ်ငန်း) မကောင်းသော၊ ပါးသော၊ ထိုင်းသော အခါကာလ။ There's plenty of slack in the economy.
❏ slacker n (infml ) အပျင်းထူသူ။ အလုပ်ခိုကတ်သူ။
❏ slackly adv လျော့လျော့ရဲရဲ။
a slackly open mouth. slackness n [U]
❏ slack off [PHRV ] (လှုပ်ရှားမှု၊ အားထုတ်မှု၊ အရှိန် စသည်) လျှော့ချသည်။ We're not so busy now, so we can slack off a bit. ❍ The rain seems to be slacking off. မိုးပါး လာဟန်ရှိသည်။ See also SLACKEN
❏ take up the slack [IDM ]
၁။ စီးပွားလုပ်ငန်းတွင် လူ၊ ဘဏ္ဍာ၊ စွမ်းအင်တို့ကို ပိုမိုထိရောက်စွာ အသုံးချသည်။ [ဥ] ဝက်အူ ကျပ် ပေးသည်။
၂။ လွန်ကြိုးစသည်ကို တင်းပေးသည်။ We took up the slack and then pulled as hard as we could.

slack² /slæk/ n

[U] ကျောက်မီးသွေးစ အမှုန်အမွှား။

More examples

The fence consisted of two slack strands of barbed wire.
The rope suddenly went slack.
Her muscles felt slack.
Slack safety standards
Some slack defending allowed Valencia to score another goal.
Business is usually slack in the winter.
Demand for the product is slack.

Synonyms

loose, limp, relaxed, baggy, floppy, drooping, sagging, anesthetize, anesthetized, anesthetizing, asleep on the job, attend to, attended to, baggy; inactive, be at ease, be calm, be comfortable, be inactive, be indolent, be slothful, be unoccupied, behindhand, bum around, bummed, bumming, can it, careless, clam up, clammed up, clamming up, clear the way, compose oneself, conceal oneself, cool it, cool out, decrease volume, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, disregardful, dog it, dormant, drag feet, drag one's feet, drowse, drowsing, dull, dummied up, dummy up, ease, ease off, ease up, easy, easy-going, excess, faineant, fainÃ©ant, fall away, falling away, featherbed, feeble, fiddle around, flabby, flaccid, flexible, flimsy, fluff off, get around, give, goldbrick, goof off, hang out, held down, hold down, hold it down, hold off, iced, idle, inactivate, inactive, inattentive, inching, indolent, inefficient, inert, infirm, intermit, intermitted, knock around, lackadaisical, laggard, lax, lay by, lay down, laze, lazy, leeway, leisurely, let up on, lethargic, lie by, lie down, lie down on job, lie in wait, lie still, loaf, lollygag, looseness, lose speed, losing speed, lounge around, lying down, make easier, monkey around, neglectful, negligent, not busy, not lift a finger, not taut, open the door, pass time, passive, patch things up, permissive, piddle, play, prorogue, prorogued, put feet up, putz around, quaggy, quiescent, quiet, refresh oneself, regardless, relax, remiss, remit, rest, room, run interference for, screw off, set right, shirk, shuffle off, sit around, sit down, skulk, slack off, slacken, slackening, slake, sloppy, slothful, slough off, slovenly, slow, slow down, slow-moving, slow-up

Antonyms

active, alert, brisk, busy, careful, diligent, disciplined, energetic, intelligent, lively, quick, rigid, rigidity, smart, stiff, stiffness, strict, strong, taut, tautness, tight, tightness

Cross references

loose limp relaxed baggy floppy drooping sagging anesthetize anesthetized anesthetizing asleep on the job attend to attended to baggy; inactive be at ease be calm be comfortable be inactive be indolent be slothful be unoccupied behindhand bum around bummed bumming can it careless clam up

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