slack tide

1. 1.

   the occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide

   Synonymsslack water

   Broadertide

Questions about slack tide

What does slack tide mean?

slack tide means "the occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide".

What is another word for slack tide?

Close synonyms include slack water. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slack tide a common word?

slack tide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.