| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | looseness, excess |
| Synonyms: | give, leeway, play, room, slackening, slow-up, slowdown |
| Antonyms: | rigidity, stiffness, tautness, tightness |
| Main Entry: | ease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guide, move carefully |
| Synonyms: | disentangle, edge, extricate, facilitate, handle, inch, induce, insert, join, loose, loosen, maneuver, relax, remove, right, set right, slack, slacken, slide, slip, squeeze, steer, untighten |
| Antonyms: | make difficult, vex |
| Main Entry: | goof off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid work |
| Synonyms: | bum around, coast, diddle, dog it, doodle, drag one's feet, featherbed, fiddle around, fluff off, fool around, hang around, hang out, horse around, lollygag, mess around, monkey around, putz around, screw off, shirk, slack, take it easy |
| Main Entry: | loaf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be idle, lazy |
| Synonyms: | be inactive, be indolent, be slothful, be unoccupied, bum around, bum*, dally, dillydally, dream, drift, evade, fool around, fritter away, goldbrick, hang out*, idle, kill time, knock around, laze, let down, lie, loiter, loll, lounge, lounge around, malinger, not lift a finger, pass time, piddle, relax, saunter, shirk, sit around, slack, slow down, stall, stand around, stroll, take it easy, trifle, twiddle thumbs, vegetate, waste time, while away hours |
| Antonyms: | achieve, do, energize, labor, work hard |
| Main Entry: | pants |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clothing for legs, lower half of body |
| Synonyms: | Bermudas, bloomers, blue jeans, boxer shorts, breeches, briefs, britches, chaps, chinos, clam diggers, cords, corduroys, denims, drawers, dungarees, jeans, jodhpurs, knickers, overalls, pantaloons, panties, pedal pushers, shorts, slacks, trousers, underpants |
| Main Entry: | quiet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make silent, calm |
| Synonyms: | allay, ameliorate, appease, assuage, becalm, button one's lip, calm down, can it, choke, clam up, compose, console, cool it, cool out, dummy up, fix up, gag, gratify, hold it down, hush, ice*, inactivate, lull, moderate, mollify, muffle, muzzle, pacify, palliate, patch things up, please, quieten, reconcile, relax, satisfy, settle, shush, shut up, silence, slack, smooth, soft-pedal, soften, soothe, square, squash, squelch, still, stroke, subdue, take the bite out of, tranquilize |
| Notes: | quiet (noun) is the absence of sound - (verb) to make calm, still, or quiet - (adjective) free of noise or uproar or making little if any sound; quite means to the greatest extent or actually, really, or truly |
| Antonyms: | turn up |
| Main Entry: | relax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, lessen |
| Synonyms: | abate, ease, ease off, ebb, lax, let up, loose, loosen, lose speed, lower, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, reduce, relieve, remit, slack, slacken, slow, slow down, untighten, weaken |
| Antonyms: | grow, increase |
| Main Entry: | remit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop, postpone |
| Synonyms: | abate, absolve, alleviate, amnesty, cancel, condone, decrease, defer, delay, desist, diminish, dwindle, ease up, excuse, exonerate, fall away, forbear, forgive, halt, hold off, hold up, intermit, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, pardon, prorogue, put off, reduce, relax, release, repeal, reprieve, rescind, respite, shelve, sink, slack, slacken, soften, stay, suspend, wane, weaken |
| Antonyms: | encourage, forge, forward |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be calm; sleep |
| Synonyms: | be at ease, be comfortable, breathe, compose oneself, doze, dream, drowse, ease off, ease up, idle, laze, lean, let down, let up, lie by, lie down, lie still, loaf, loll, lounge, nap, nod, put feet up, recline, refresh oneself, relax, repose, sit down, slack, slack off, slacken, slumber, snooze, spell, stretch out, take a break, take a nap, take five, take it easy, take life easy, take ten, take time out, unbend, unlax, unwind, wind down |
| Antonyms: | activate, be active, carry out, do, energize |