loose

Plural: looses

Verb

Verb Forms: loosed, loosing, looses

• To set free or release from restraint.
• grant freedom to; free from confinement
• turn loose or free from restraint
  • "let loose mines"
  • "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"
• make loose or looser
  • "loosen the tension on a rope"
• become loose or looser or less tight
  • "The noose loosened"
• To let loose, to free from restraints.
• To unfasten, to loosen.
• To make less tight, to loosen.
• Of a grip or hold, to let go.
• To shoot (an arrow).
• To set sail.
• To solve; to interpret.
• Obsolete form of lose.
• Misspelling of lose.

Adjective

• Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; not confined.
• not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
  • "loose gravel"
• not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
  • "loose clothing"
  • "the large shoes were very loose"
• not affixed
  • "the stamp came loose"

Adjective Satellite

• (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
  • "a loose ball"
• not officially recognized or controlled
  • "a loose organization of the local farmers"
• not literal
  • "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"
• emptying easily or excessively
  • "loose bowels"
• not tense or taut
  • "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"
• (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
  • "a loose weave"
• lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
  • "a loose tongue"
• not carefully arranged in a package
  • "a box of loose nails"
• having escaped, especially from confinement
  • "dogs loose on the streets"
  • "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"
• casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
  • "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"

Adverb

• without restraint
  • "cows in India are running loose"

Adj

• Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
• Not held or packaged together.
• Not under control.
• Not fitting closely.
• Not compact.
• Relaxed.
• Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
• Indiscreet.
• Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
• Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
• Not costive; having lax bowels.
• Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
• Having oversteer.

Noun

• The release of an arrow.
• A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
• All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
• Freedom from restraint.
• A letting go; discharge.

Intj

• begin shooting; release your arrows

Examples

• a cloth of loose texture
• a loose way of reasoning
• He caught an elbow going after a loose ball.
• He decided to LOOSE his best word for a big score, rather than hold it back.
• He had a LOOSE grip on the lead, knowing one big word could change everything.
• I wear loose clothes when it is hot.
• I'm going to loose this game.
• It is difficult walking on loose gravel.
• Loose talk costs lives.
• She danced with a loose flowing movement.
• The dog is loose again.
• The puck was momentarily loose right in front of the net.
• This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.
• You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose.

Synonyms

at large, easy, escaped, free, idle, informal, lax, let loose, liberal, liberate, light, loosen, on the loose, open, promiscuous, relax, release, slack, sluttish, unaffixed, unleash, unloose, unloosen, wanton, baggy, carefree, diffuse, fire, indiscreet, let go, loose, loose-fitting, loose-limbed, relaxed, separate, shoot, slacken, slutty, spaced out, tarty, unbind, undo, unfasten, unfastened, unpackaged, unsecured, unstapled, untethered, untie, whorish

Antonyms

affixed, compact, confine, stiffen, tight, bind, bound, close-fitting, constrain, discreet, faithful, fast, fasten, firm, leashed, monogamous, packaged, snug, tense, tensed, tethered, tie, tied, tied up, tighten

Related Words

-lysis, forlorn, ly-, lyo-, lysis, rickety, separate, LOOSELY

Anagrams of loose