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LOOSE

Definition:

1. [adverb] without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"
   Synonyms: free
   
   
2. [verb] grant freedom to; free from confinement
   Synonyms: free, liberate, release, ununn
   
   
3. [verb] turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"
   Synonyms: unleash, let
   
   
4. [verb] make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope"
   
   
5. [verb] become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
   Synonyms: relax
   
   
6. [adjective] not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker"
   
   
7. [adjective] not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel"
   
   
8. [adjective] (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball"
   
   
9. [adjective] not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose"
   
   
10. [adjective] not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"
    Synonyms: informal
    
    
11. [adjective] not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
    Synonyms: free, liberal
    
    
12. [adjective] emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"
    Synonyms: lax
    
    
13. [adjective] not affixed; "the stamp came loose"
    Synonyms: unaffixed
    
    
14. [adjective] not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope"
    Synonyms: slack
    
    
15. [adjective] (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave"
    Synonyms: open
    
    
16. [adjective] not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks"
    
    
17. [adjective] lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
    Synonyms: idle
    
    
18. [adjective] not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"
    
    
19. [adjective] freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough"
    
    
20. [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"
    Synonyms: at large, at liberty, escaped, on the
    
    
21. [adjective] casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
    Synonyms: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton
    
    
22. [adjective] not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers"
    
    

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Related Words:

• unspell
• unchain
• bail
• run
• bail out
• parole
• relax, unbend
• slacken, remit
• slack
• unscrew
• unscrew

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