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Loose   /lus/   Listen
Loose

adjective
(compar. looser; superl. loosest)
1.
Not compact or dense in structure or arrangement.
2.
(of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player.
3.
Not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting.  "The large shoes were very loose"
4.
Not officially recognized or controlled.  Synonym: informal.  "A loose organization of the local farmers"
5.
Not literal.  Synonyms: free, liberal.  "A free translation of the poem"
6.
Emptying easily or excessively.  Synonym: lax.
7.
Not affixed.  Synonym: unaffixed.
8.
Not tense or taut.  Synonym: slack.  "Slack and wrinkled skin" , "Slack sails" , "A slack rope"
9.
(of textures) full of small openings or gaps.  Synonym: open.  "A loose weave"
10.
Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility.  Synonym: idle.  "A loose tongue"
11.
Not carefully arranged in a package.
12.
Having escaped, especially from confinement.  Synonyms: at large, escaped, on the loose.  "Searching for two escaped prisoners" , "Dogs loose on the streets" , "Criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"
13.
Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior.  Synonyms: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton.  "He was told to avoid loose (or light) women" , "Wanton behavior"
verb
(past & past part. loosed; pres. part. loosing)
1.
Grant freedom to; free from confinement.  Synonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen.
2.
Turn loose or free from restraint.  Synonyms: let loose, unleash.  "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"
3.
Make loose or looser.  Synonym: loosen.
4.
Become loose or looser or less tight.  Synonyms: loosen, relax.  "The rope relaxed"
adverb
1.
Without restraint.  Synonym: free.



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"Loose" Quotes from Famous Books



... pardon,' said Larry, completely sobered; 'I'm as glad as the best pair of boots ever I see, to see your honour nothing the worse for it. It was the linch-pin, and them barrows of loose stones, that ought to be fined anyway, if there was any ...
— The Absentee • Maria Edgeworth
... been so futile! Two lives ruined, and the purchase price paid in tears of blood; and, after all, Tim's happiness was as utterly remote and beyond attainment as though no torrent of disaster had been let loose to further it! Elisabeth had bartered her ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... and settle, other loves may loose and slack, But I wander like a minstrel with a harp upon his back, Though the harp be on my bosom, though I finger and I fret, Still, my hope is all before me: for I ...
— Poems • G.K. Chesterton
... that he seemed to be as much the guest of any other person of the family, themselves excepted, as mine?—In revenge, they told me, that it was cunning management between us; and that we both understood one another better than we pretended to do. And at last they gave such a loose to their passions, all of a sudden* as I may say, that instead of withdrawing, as they used to do when he came, they threw themselves in his way ...
— Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... heavy woolen socks will habitually be worn for marching. Cotton socks will not be worn unless specifically ordered by the surgeon. The socks will be large enough to permit free movement of the toes, but not so loose as to permit of wrinkling. Darned socks, or socks with holes in them, will not be worn ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department


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