slacking

Questions about slacking

What does slacking mean?

slacking means "the evasion of work or duty".

How many syllables are in slacking?

slacking has 2 syllables and divides as slac-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for slacking?

Close synonyms include shirking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbricking. 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 slacking a common word?

slacking is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.