Meaning of மந்தமான in English

A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.
Sorrow; wretchedness.
Dismalness; gloomy solitude.
Sorrowful; distressful.
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
Somewhat droll.
Troubled; muddy.
Droughty.
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
Insensible; unfeeling.
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
To become dull or stupid.
Stupid; doltish.
of Dull
Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
Dull.
Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.
Alt. of Lacklustre
A want of luster.
Wanting luster or brightness.
Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy.
Like a lubber; clumsy.
Clumsily; awkwardly.
Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent.
To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.
To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.
The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby.
A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.
A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.
A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.
Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.
Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
A valley, or small, shallow dell.
Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.
Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.
Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.
Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack.
Slackly; as, slack dried hops.
The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.
Alt. of Slacken
To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
To abate; to become less violent.
To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
To languish; to fail; to flag.
To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
To neglect; to be remiss in.
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.
To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
of Slacken
of Slough
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
Full of sloughs, miry.
Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
Sluggish; lazy.
To make lazy.
The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.
Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
Sluggish.
of Slumber
Inviting slumber; soporiferous.
Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.
Slumberous.
Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.
Intoxicated; drunken.