Loose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
  • adj. Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.
  • adj. Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.
  • adj. Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.
  • adj. Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.
  • adj. Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.
  • adj. Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.
  • adj. Not formal; relaxed: a loose atmosphere at the club.
  • adj. Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.
  • adj. Not literal or exact: a loose translation.
  • adj. Characterized by a free movement of fluids in the body: a loose cough; loose bowels.
  • ad. In a loose manner.
  • v. To let loose; release: loosed the dogs.
  • v. To make loose; undo: loosed his belt.
  • v. To cast loose; detach: hikers loosing their packs at camp.
  • v. To let fly; discharge: loosed an arrow.
  • v. To release pressure or obligation from; absolve: loosed her from the responsibility.
  • v. To make less strict; relax: a leader's strong authority that was loosed by easy times.
  • verb-intransitive. To become loose.
  • verb-intransitive. To discharge a missile; fire.
  • idiom. on the loose At large; free.
  • idiom. on the loose Acting in an uninhibited fashion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Common misspelling of lose.
  • v. To let loose, to free from restraints.
  • v. To unfasten, to loosen.
  • v. To make less tight, to loosen.
  • v. Of a grip or hold, to let go.
  • v. to shoot (an arrow)
  • v. To set sail.
  • adj. Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
  • adj. Not held or packaged together.
  • adj. Not under control.
  • adj. Not fitting closely
  • adj. Not compact.
  • adj. Relaxed.
  • adj. Indiscreet.
  • adj. Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
  • adj. Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
  • n. The release of an arrow.
  • n. A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
  • interjection. begin shooting; release your arrows
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined.
  • adj. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of.
  • adj. Not tight or close.
  • adj. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded.
  • adj. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
  • adj. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
  • adj. Unconnected; rambling.
  • adj. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
  • adj. Dissolute; unchaste.
  • adj. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language.
  • n. Freedom from restraint.
  • n. A letting go; discharge.
  • v. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
  • v. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
  • v. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
  • v. To solve; to interpret.
  • verb-intransitive. To set sail.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not fast or confined; not fastened; unattached; free from restraint or obligation; not bound to another or together; without bonds, ties, or attachments; at liberty: as, loose sheets of a book; loose tresses of hair; loose change in one's pocket; to break loose; to be set loose; to cut loose from bad habits.
  • Not tight or close; without close union or adjustment; slightly or slackly joined: as, a loose knot; loose garments; a loose league or confederation.
  • Not dense or compact; having interstices or intervals; open or expanded: as, cloth of loose texture; a loose order of battle.
  • Not concise or condensed; wanting precision or connection of parts; diffuse; rambling: as, a loose style of writing; loose reasoning; a loose array of facts.
  • Not exact in meaning; indefinite; vague; uncertain.
  • Lax; relaxed; slack; wanting retentiveness or power of restraint: as, loose bowels; loose ties; a loose bond of union.
  • Lax in character or quality; not strict or exact; careless; slovenly: as, a loose construction of the constitution; a loose mode of conducting business; loose morality.
  • Lax in principle or conduct; free from moral restraint; wanton; dissolute; unchaste: as, a loose woman; loose behavior.
  • Disengaged; free; independent: with from or of.
  • Seemingly communicative; frank; open; candid.
  • n. Freedom from restraint; license.
  • n. The act of letting go or letting fly; discharge; shot.
  • n. A solution of a problem or explanation of a difficulty.
  • n. The privilege of turning out cattle on commons.
  • To make loose or free; release from that which restrains, confines, or hampers; set at liberty; disengage; discharge from constraint, obligation, or penalty.
  • To disengage the hold of; undo; unfasten; untie.
  • To relax; loosen; make or let loose, partially or wholly: as, to loose sail; to loose one's hold or grasp.
  • To solve; explain.
  • Synonyms To unfasten, let go, detach, disconnect, absolve, acquit.
  • To perform the act of loosening; make or set loose something; let go a hold, unmoor a ship, shoot an arrow, or the like.
  • In chem., not combined with anything else: as, carbon dioxid loose in the blood. The word free is more commonly used in this sense.
  • In geology, incoherent, as unconsolidated sands.
  • In coal-mining, free at the ends or sides: applied to a working-place when the coal has been previously mined on both sides: as, loose at one end, loose at one side, etc.
  • n. In Rugby foot-ball, that part of the play in which the ball travels freely from player to player, as distinguished from the scrimmage.
  • n. In mining, the end of a shift. Also loosing-time. When the workmen leave, the pit is said to be ‘loosed out.’
  • n. In archery: The act of releasing the bow-string and discharging the arrow.
  • n. The mode of performing this act, which differs among different peoples.
  • In archery, to release (the bowstring) after the bow is drawn, thus discharging the arrow.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
  • adj. not literal
  • v. make loose or looser
  • adj. emptying easily or excessively
  • adj. not carefully arranged in a package
  • adj. not officially recognized or controlled
  • adj. (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
  • v. grant freedom to; free from confinement
  • adj. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
  • ad. without restraint
  • adj. (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
  • adj. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
  • adj. having escaped, especially from confinement
  • adj. not tense or taut
  • v. turn loose or free from restraint
  • v. become loose or looser or less tight
  • adj. not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
  • adj. not affixed
  • Equivalent
    sloppy    loose-fitting    flyaway    baggy    inexact    regular    unconstipated    unpackaged    unofficial    harsh   
    Antonym
    compact    firm    fast   
    Verb Form
    loosed    looses    loosing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    let go of    let go    relinquish    release    weaken   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    bail out    unspell    parole    bail    run    unchain   
    Form
    looser    give a loose   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unbound    untied    unsewed    vague    indeterminate    unconnected    rambling    lax    dissolute    unchaste   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bruce    Chartreuse    Duce    Luce    Seuss    Spruce    Zeus    abstruse    abuse    boose   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    thin    long    coarse    tight