slackness / slæk /

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slackness5 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
  2. negligent; careless; remiss: slack proofreading.
  3. slow, sluggish, or indolent: He is slack in answering letters.
adv. 副词 adverb
  1. in a slack manner.
n. 名词 noun
  1. a slack condition or part.
  2. the part of a rope, sail, or the like, that hangs loose, without strain upon it.
  3. a decrease in activity, as in business or work: a sudden slack in output.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to be remiss in respect to; shirk; leave undone: He slacked the most important part.
  2. to make or allow to become less active, vigorous, intense, etc.; relax; lessen; moderate.
  3. to make loose, or less tense or taut, as a rope; loosen.
  4. to slake.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to be remiss; shirk one's duty or part.
  2. to become less active, vigorous, rapid, etc.: Business is slacking up.
  3. to become less tense or taut, as a rope; to ease off.
  4. to become slaked, as lime.

slackness 近义词

n. 名词 noun

negligence

更多slackness例句

  1. Contextual has undoubted benefits and can take up some of the slack, but it won’t provide a magic bullet.
  2. In the meantime, let’s cut folks some slack and see how this big engine rolls as it kicks into high gear.
  3. “I feel a great disturbance in the slack, as if millions of people tried to log on for the first time in two weeks and were suddenly silenced,” software analyst Steve O’Grady of RedMonk tweeted, referencing a famous line from Star Wars.
  4. When I’m finished petting Qoobo, there’s no protest — the tail simply goes slack.
  5. Gauges of input prices and costs paid by businesses are also perking up as of late, though factories still have plenty of slack in capacity.
  6. For this he had kept his body clean and his soul clean where all about him was sloth and slackness.
  7. The bridle of the throat then is to be held attempered between slackness and stiffness.
  8. Complaints of waste in supply departments and of slackness of discipline among the troops were rife in the early months.
  9. Even Mr. Monk, who was the most earnest of men, felt the general slackness of all around him.
  10. In any case the Emperor was deeply incensed by what he considered Victor's slackness, and degraded him.