broken vs slack

broken

adj
  • Uneven. 

  • Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful. 

  • Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next. 

  • Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic. 

  • Fractured; having the bone in pieces. 

  • Badly designed or implemented. 

  • Fragmented; in separate pieces. 

  • Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds. 

  • Interrupted; not continuous. 

  • Having no money; bankrupt, broke. 

  • Not having gone in the way intended; saddening. 

  • Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous. 

  • Split or ruptured. 

  • Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker. 

  • Breached; violated; not kept. 

  • Non-functional; not functioning properly. 

  • Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed. 

slack

adj
  • Lax. 

  • Moderately warm. 

  • Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music. 

  • Not active or busy, successful, or violent. 

  • Excess; surplus to requirements. 

  • Lax; not tense; not firmly extended. 

  • Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager. 

  • Moderate in speed. 

  • Weak; not holding fast. 

noun
  • Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient. 

  • A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place. 

  • A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains. 

  • The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it. 

  • Small coal; coal dust. 

  • A valley, or small, shallow dell. 

adv
  • Slackly. 

verb
  • To slacken. 

  • To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake. 

How often have the words broken and slack occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )