| slob | (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: pig, sloven, slovenly person |
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| slobber | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool |
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| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slaver |
| slobberer | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, drooler |
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| sloe | (noun) small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush | - |
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| (noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: blackthorn, Prunus spinosa |
| (noun) wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh | Synonyms: Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, Prunus alleghaniensis |
| slog | (verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat | Synonyms: slug, swig |
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| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, tramp, trudge |
| (verb) work doggedly or persistently | Synonyms: keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel, peg away, plug away |
| slogan | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, shibboleth |
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| sloganeer | (noun) someone who coins and uses slogans to promote a cause | - |
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| (verb) coin new slogans | - |
| sloganeering | (noun) persuasion by means of empty slogans | - |
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| slogger | (noun) a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches | Synonyms: slugger |
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| (noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: plodder |
| (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: plodder, trudger |
| sloop | (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow | - |
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| slop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, treacle |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slops, swill |
| (noun) (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink | - |
| (noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: mire |
| (noun) (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand | - |
| (verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: swill |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: spill, splatter |
| (verb) ladle clumsily | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| slope | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: gradient |
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| (noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: incline, side |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, pitch |
| 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 |
| slopingly | (adverb) with a slant | Synonyms: slantingly |
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| 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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| sloppily | (adverb) in a sloppy manner | - |
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| sloppiness | (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: carelessness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, soupiness |
| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: slovenliness, unkemptness |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: muddiness, wateriness |
| 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 | - |
| slops | (noun) cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain) | - |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill |
| slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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| slopshop | (noun) a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slopseller's shop |
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| slosh | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh around, slush, slush around |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slush, splash, splosh |
| 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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| slot | (noun) a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail) | - |
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| (noun) a slot machine that is used for gambling | Synonyms: one-armed bandit |
| (noun) (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board | Synonyms: expansion slot |
| (noun) a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable | - |
| (noun) the trail of an animal (especially a deer) | - |
| (noun) a position in a hierarchy or organization | - |
| (noun) a time assigned on a schedule or agenda | Synonyms: time slot |
| (verb) assign a time slot | - |
| sloth | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: acedia, laziness |
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| (noun) any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits | Synonyms: tree sloth |
| (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself | Synonyms: slothfulness |
| slothful | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, work-shy |
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| slothfulness | (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself | Synonyms: sloth |
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| slouch | (noun) a stooping carriage in standing and walking | - |
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| (noun) an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions | - |
| (verb) walk slovenly | - |
| (verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage | Synonyms: slump |
| sloucher | (noun) a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage | - |
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| slouchily | (adverb) in a slouchy manner | - |
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| slouchingly | (adverb) with a slouching gait or posture | - |
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| slouchy | (adjective) lacking stiffness in form or posture | - |
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| slough | (noun) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) | - |
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| (noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: gangrene, sphacelus |
| (noun) a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) | - |
| (noun) a hollow filled with mud | - |
| (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, shed |
| sloughing | (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: shedding |
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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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| sloven | (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: pig, slob, slovenly person |
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| slovenliness | (noun) habitual uncleanliness | - |
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| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: sloppiness, unkemptness |
| 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 |
| (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: easy, slowly, tardily |
| (adverb) showing a time that is earlier than the actual time | Synonyms: behind |
| (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, retard, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slacken, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to proceed more slowly | Synonyms: slow down, slow up |
| slowcoach | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
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| slowdown | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, retardation |
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| slower | (adverb) more slowly | - |
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| slowest | (adverb) most slowly | - |
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| slowgoing | (adjective) not inclined to be enterprising | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| slowing | (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, retardation |
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| slowly | (adverb) in music | Synonyms: lento |
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| (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: easy, slow, tardily |
| slowness | (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, deliberation, unhurriedness |
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| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, subnormality |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness |
| slowpoke | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: plodder, slowcoach, stick-in-the-mud |
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| slowworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, blindworm |
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