Difference between Slack and Slump

What is the difference between Slack and Slump?

Slack as a noun is small coal; coal dust. while Slump as a noun is a heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.

Slack

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Small coal; coal dust. A valley, or small, shallow dell. The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it. A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Slackly.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: 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. Not violent, rapid, or pressing.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to procrastinate; to be lazy to refuse or dislike exerting effort

Example sentence: I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don't make guns. Smith and Wesson makes guns. Like, white people make guns and bullets, and all we're doing is rhyming and putting words together.

Slump

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To collapse heavily or helplessly.To slouch or droop.To decline or fall off in activity or performance.

Example sentence: What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

We hope you now know whether to use Slack or Slump in your sentence.

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