Slack vs Slapdash - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
(countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
(countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
Weak; not holding fast.
Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
* Bible, 2 Peter iii. 9
Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=3 (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music
Slackly.
To slacken.
* Robert South
(obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:
to procrastinate; to be lazy
to refuse to exert effort
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
Done hastily; haphazard; careless.
* 2014 , A teacher, "
In a hasty or careless manner.
Directly, right there; slap-bang.
With a slap; all at once; slap.
(colloquial) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
Slack is a related term of slapdash.
As verbs the difference between slack and slapdash
is that slack is while slapdash is (colloquial) to apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.As an adjective slapdash is
done hastily; haphazard; careless.As an adverb slapdash is
in a hasty or careless manner.slack
English
Noun
- (Raymond)
- The slack of a rope or of a sail.
Synonyms
* culm * (tidal marsh) sloughDerived terms
* (coal dust) nutty slackAdjective
(er)- a slack rope
- a slack hand
- slack in duty or service
- The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.
- Business is slack .
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Synonyms
* slow, moderate, easyDerived terms
* slack-jawedAdverb
(-)- slack dried hops
Verb
(en verb)- In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace.
- Ne did she let dull sleepe once to relent, / Nor wearinesse to slack her hast, but fled / Ever alike [...].
- Lime slacks .
Derived terms
* skive offAnagrams
* *slapdash
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September 2014:
- When you're in the front entrance, get a feel for what's going on. Tours are never timed to coincide with breaks but if there are any children milling about, see what they're up to. If they're on a dutiful errand, for example delivering registers, the school probably encourages a responsible attitude. If they're play-fighting in the corridor without consequence, it tells a less impressive story and could mean a slapdash approach to discipline.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdverb
(en adverb)- Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
- (Prior)
Synonyms
* (in a hasty manner): carelessly, haphazardly, hastily * (directly): directlyVerb
- to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
- to slapdash a wall