| slack | (adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: loose |
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| (adjective) lacking in rigor or strictness | Synonyms: lax |
| (adjective) flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide | - |
| slain | (adjective) killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors" | - |
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| slaked | (adjective) allayed | Synonyms: quenched, satisfied |
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| slanderous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous |
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| slangy | (adjective) constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang | - |
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| slanted | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| (adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: biased, colored, coloured, one-sided |
| slanting | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping |
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| slapdash | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slipshod, sloppy |
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| slaphappy | (adjective) dazed from or as if from repeated blows | Synonyms: punch-drunk, silly |
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| (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum |
| slapstick | (adjective) characterized by horseplay and physical action | - |
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| slashed | (adjective) having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric | - |
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| (adjective) (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply | Synonyms: cut |
| (adjective) patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes | - |
| slashing | (adjective) as if striking with slashing blows | - |
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| slatey | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, slaty, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| slatternly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish |
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| slaty | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slatey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| slaughterous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous |
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| slaveholding | (adjective) allowing slavery | - |
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| slaveless | (adjective) where slavery was prohibited | Synonyms: free-soil, non-slave |
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| slavelike | (adjective) suitable for a slave or servant | - |
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| slavish | (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: submissive, subservient |
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| (adjective) blindly imitative | - |
| sleazy | (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, tinny |
| (adjective) of cloth; thin and loosely woven | - |
| sleek | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, slick |
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| (adjective) well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed | - |
| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, streamlined |
| sleeping | (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: dormant |
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| sleepless | (adjective) always watchful | Synonyms: lidless |
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| (adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: insomniac, watchful |
| sleepy | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded |
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| sleepyheaded | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepy |
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| sleety | (adjective) consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain | - |
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| sleeved | (adjective) made with sleeves or sleeves especially as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| sleeveless | (adjective) having no sleeves | - |
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| (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, fruitless, futile, vain |
| slender | (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: thin |
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| (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slim |
| (adjective) having little width in proportion to the length or height | - |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slight, slim, svelte |
| sliced | (adjective) (used of meat) cut into pieces for serving | - |
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| (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: chopped, shredded |
| slick | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek |
| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glib, pat |
| (adjective) made slick by e.g. ice or grease | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, neat |
| slicked | (adjective) (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance | Synonyms: plastered |
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| sliding | (adjective) being a smooth continuous motion | - |
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| slight | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: little |
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| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte |
| slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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| slim | (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slender |
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| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slight, svelte |
| slimed | (adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimy |
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| slimy | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| (adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimed |
| slippered | (adjective) shod with slippers | - |
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| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| slipping | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slithering |
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| slippy | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippery |
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| slipshod | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, sloppy |
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| slithering | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slipping |
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| slithery | (adjective) having a slippery surface or quality | - |
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| slivery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: splintery |
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| sloped | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloping |
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| sloping | (adjective) having a slanting form or direction | - |
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| (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped |
| slopped | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| sloppy | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod |
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| (adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional | Synonyms: overemotional |
| (adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely | Synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting |
| (adjective) lacking neatness or order | - |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| (adjective) wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material | - |
| sloshed | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| slothful | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, work-shy |
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| slouchy | (adjective) lacking stiffness in form or posture | - |
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| sloughy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| slovenly | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowsy, frowzy |
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| slow | (adjective) not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time | - |
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| (adjective) at a slow tempo | - |
| (adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time | - |
| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, sluggish |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse |
| (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
| slowgoing | (adjective) not inclined to be enterprising | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| slubbed | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, nubby, tweedy |
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| sluggish | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, soggy, torpid |
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| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, slow |
| (adjective) slow or slothful | Synonyms: sulky |
| sluicing | (adjective) pouring from or as if from a sluice | - |
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| slumberous | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| (adjective) quiet and tranquil | Synonyms: slumbrous |
| slumbery | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| slumbrous | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbery, somnolent |
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| (adjective) quiet and tranquil | Synonyms: slumberous |
| slummy | (adjective) (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty | - |
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| slurred | (adjective) spoken as if with a thick tongue | Synonyms: thick |
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| slushy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) being or resembling melting snow | - |
| sluttish | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, wanton |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, slatternly |
| sly | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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