'Loose' definitions:
Definition of 'loose'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" [syn: loose, free]
adjective
Not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel" [ant: compact]
adjective
(of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball"
adjective
Not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose" [ant: tight]
adjective
Not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" [syn: informal, loose]
adjective
Not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose, liberal]
adjective
Emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" [syn: lax, loose]
adjective
adjective
Not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" [syn: loose, slack]
adjective
(of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" [syn: loose, open]
adjective
Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" [syn: idle, loose]
adjective
Not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"
adjective
Having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood" [syn: at large(p), escaped, loose, on the loose(p)]
adjective
Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" [syn: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton]
verb
Grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine, detain]
verb
Turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity" [syn: unleash, let loose, loose]
verb
verb
Definition of 'Loose'
From: GCIDE
- Loose \Loose\, n.
- 1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.] --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A letting go; discharge. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- To give a loose, to give freedom. [1913 Webster]
- Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Loose'
From: GCIDE
- Loose \Loose\ (l[=oo]s), a. [Compar. Looser (l[=oo]s"[~e]r); superl. Loosest.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le['a]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l["o]s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. [root]127. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.]
- 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. [1913 Webster]
- Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of. [1913 Webster]
- Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ? --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture. [1913 Webster]
- With horse and chariots ranked in loose array. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning. [1913 Webster]
- The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation. --Whewel. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. [1913 Webster]
- The loose morality which he had learned. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Unconnected; rambling. [1913 Webster]
- Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. [1913 Webster]
- Loose ladies in delight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed.
- Fast and loose. See under Fast.
- To break loose. See under Break.
- Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast.
- To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Loose'
From: GCIDE
- Loose \Loose\ (l[=oo]s), v. n. [imp. & p. p. Loosed (l[=oo]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Loosing.] [From Loose, a.]
- 1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve. [1913 Webster]
- Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion ? --Job. xxxviii. 31. [1913 Webster]
- Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me. --Matt. xxi. 2. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit. [1913 Webster]
- Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife. --1 Cor. vii. 27. [1913 Webster]
- Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. --Matt. xvi. 19. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict. [1913 Webster]
- The joints of his loins were loosed. --Dan. v. 6. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To solve; to interpret. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Loose'
From: GCIDE
- Loose \Loose\, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.] --Acts xiii. 13. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'loose'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- abate,
- absonant,
- adrift,
- affable,
- afloat,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- aid,
- aimless,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- alleviate,
- amorphous,
- approximate,
- approximative,
- at large,
- at liberty,
- aweigh,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- ballooning,
- barbarous,
- bate,
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- blobby,
- blowzy,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- Bohemian,
- break loose,
- broad,
- by the way,
- capricious,
- careless,
- cast off,
- cast-off,
- casual,
- chambering,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- chintzy,
- clear,
- clear the way,
- confused,
- contradictory,
- contrary to reason,
- cool off,
- cordial,
- corrupt,
- culpably negligent,
- dangling,
- debauched,
- degage,
- deliver,
- derelict,
- desultory,
- detach,
- detached,
- deviative,
- diffuse,
- digressive,
- dilapidated,
- discharge,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discursive,
- disengage,
- disengaged,
- disenthrall,
- disjoin,
- disjointed,
- disordered,
- disorganized,
- disperse,
- dispersed,
- dissolute,
- doff,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- ease,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- emancipate,
- emancipated,
- emit,
- episodic,
- erroneous,
- escape,
- escaped,
- excursive,
- expedite,
- explain,
- extravagant,
- facilitate,
- fallacious,
- familiar,
- fast,
- faulty,
- fire,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- flapping,
- flawed,
- fled,
- flee,
- flimsy,
- floating,
- floppy,
- flowing,
- flown,
- foggy,
- folksy,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- free,
- free and easy,
- free as air,
- freeborn,
- freed,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- fugitive,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- give out with,
- go-as-you-please,
- go-go,
- gracious,
- grease,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- grubby,
- hanging,
- hasten,
- haymish,
- hazy,
- help along,
- hit-or-miss,
- homely,
- homey,
- ill-defined,
- illogical,
- immoderate,
- immoral,
- impotent,
- imprecise,
- improper,
- in disarray,
- in disorder,
- in rags,
- in the clear,
- inaccurate,
- inadvertent,
- inattentive,
- inauthentic,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconclusive,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- incontinent,
- incorrect,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indifferent,
- indistinct,
- indulgent,
- inexact,
- infelicitous,
- informal,
- intemperate,
- invalid,
- irrational,
- irregular,
- irrepressible,
- laissez-faire,
- lax,
- lenient,
- lessen,
- let down,
- let fly,
- let go,
- let up,
- lewd,
- liberate,
- liberated,
- libertine,
- licentious,
- light,
- limp,
- loose-moraled,
- loosen,
- lop,
- lop-eared,
- loppy,
- lubricate,
- lumpen,
- make clear,
- make way for,
- manumit,
- maundering,
- messy,
- mitigate,
- movable,
- mussy,
- natural,
- neglectful,
- neglecting,
- negligent,
- nodding,
- nonadhesive,
- noninterfering,
- nonrestrictive,
- nonscientific,
- nonspecific,
- not following,
- obscure,
- of easy virtue,
- of loose morals,
- off-guard,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- oil,
- on the loose,
- open the way,
- open up,
- orderless,
- out of,
- out of control,
- out of hand,
- out of line,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- out of true,
- overindulgent,
- overly permissive,
- overpermissive,
- Paphian,
- paralogical,
- pave the way,
- permissive,
- perverted,
- plain,
- poky,
- prepare the way,
- procrastinating,
- profligate,
- promiscuous,
- quicken,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- rambling,
- rampant,
- random,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- reinless,
- relax,
- relaxed,
- release,
- released,
- remiss,
- remit,
- remove,
- remove friction,
- rickety,
- riotous,
- rough,
- roving,
- rubbery,
- ruinous,
- run interference for,
- runaway,
- sagging,
- sagging in folds,
- saggy,
- scamping,
- scatter,
- scot-free,
- scraggly,
- seedy,
- self-annulling,
- self-contradictory,
- self-refuting,
- senseless,
- separate,
- set free,
- shabby,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shoddy,
- shoot,
- simple,
- simplify,
- sit back,
- skimping,
- slack,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slake,
- slapdash,
- slatternly,
- slighting,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- slurring,
- sluttish,
- smooth,
- smooth the way,
- soap the ways,
- sociable,
- soft,
- solecistic,
- sordid,
- speed,
- spread about,
- squalid,
- started,
- stochastic,
- streaming,
- swag,
- sweeping,
- tacky,
- take it easy,
- take off,
- tattered,
- unaffected,
- unanchored,
- unassuming,
- unattached,
- unauthentic,
- unbar,
- unbend,
- unbind,
- unblock,
- unbolt,
- unbound,
- unbrace,
- unbridle,
- unbridled,
- unbuckle,
- unbutton,
- uncage,
- unceremonious,
- unchain,
- unchained,
- unchaste,
- unchecked,
- uncircumspect,
- unclasp,
- unclear,
- unclog,
- uncoerced,
- uncommitted,
- uncompelled,
- unconfined,
- unconnected,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrolled,
- unconventional,
- uncurbed,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undo,
- undone,
- unengaged,
- unfactual,
- unfasten,
- unfastened,
- unfetter,
- unfettered,
- unfixed,
- unforced,
- ungag,
- unglue,
- ungoverned,
- ungrammatic,
- unguarded,
- unhandcuff,
- unhobble,
- uninhibited,
- uninvolved,
- unjam,
- unkempt,
- unlace,
- unlash,
- unlatch,
- unleash,
- unlock,
- unloose,
- unloosen,
- unmanacle,
- unmastered,
- unmeasured,
- unmoored,
- unmuzzle,
- unmuzzled,
- unneat,
- unofficial,
- unpen,
- unphilosophical,
- unpinion,
- unplain,
- unprecise,
- unreasonable,
- unreined,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestrictive,
- unrigorous,
- unruly,
- unscientific,
- unsecured,
- unshackle,
- unshackled,
- unsightly,
- unspecific,
- unspecified,
- unstick,
- unstrain,
- unstrap,
- unstring,
- unstuck,
- unstudied,
- unsubdued,
- unsuppressed,
- untether,
- untidy,
- untie,
- untied,
- untighten,
- untruss,
- unwary,
- unwatchful,
- unyoke,
- vague,
- veiled,
- vent,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wayward,
- weak,
- weigh anchor,
- well out of,
- whorish,
- wild,
- without reason
Words containing 'Loose'
- Loosed,
- Loosely,
- Looseness,
- Loosing,
- loose off,
- on the loose,
- A screw loose,
- At loose ends,
- Fast and loose,
- Loose liver,
- Loose pulley,
- To break loose,
- To get loose,
- To give a loose,
- To let loose,
- To loose sails,
- break loose,
- cut loose,
- let loose,
- loose cannon,
- loose end,
- loose ends,
- loose sentence,
- loose smut,
- loose woman,
- loosely knit,
- looseness of the bowels,
- pry loose from,
- tear loose,
- Fast and loose pulleys,
- foot-loose,
- loose-fitting,
- loose-jointed,
- loose-jowled,
- loose-leaf,
- screw-loose,
- loose-leaf binder,
- loose-leaf lettuce