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loose English

Meaning loose meaning

What does loose mean?
Definitions in simple English

loose Adjective

— If something is loose, it moves easily or may come away from what it is attached to. His tooth is loose and will probably come out in a day or two. — If something is loose, it does not fit closely. My pants are so loose that they keep falling down.

loose

— adverb without restraint cows in India are running loose — adjective (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player a loose ball — adjective not compact or dense in structure or arrangement loose gravel — adjective not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting loose clothing the large shoes were very loose — adjective (= informal) not officially recognized or controlled an informal agreement a loose organization of the local farmers — adjective (= free) not literal a loose interpretation of what she had been told a free translation of the poem — adjective emptying easily or excessively loose bowels — verb (= let loose) turn loose or free from restraint let loose mines Loose terrible plagues upon humanity — verb (= free) grant freedom to; free from confinement — adjective (= open) (of textures) full of small openings or gaps an open texture a loose weave — adjective (= slack) not tense or taut the old man's skin hung loose and grey slack and wrinkled skin slack sails a slack rope — adjective not carefully arranged in a package a box of loose nails — adjective not affixed the stamp came loose — adjective (= idle) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility idle talk a loose tongue — verb (= loosen) make loose or looser loosen the tension on a rope — verb (= loosen, relax) become loose or looser or less tight The noose loosened the rope relaxed — adjective (= easy, light, wanton) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior her easy virtue he was told to avoid loose (or light) women wanton behavior — adjective (= at large, escaped, on the loose) 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 loose synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as loose?

loose English » English

slack free release loosen lax baggy untie undo unfasten relaxed crumbly soft liberate unloose unleash loosened let loose let go weak unsteady unloosen unbind thin shapeless shaky easy unstable unlock set free open not tight liberal ill-fitting friable dissolute disengage vague unbound unattached slovenly sloppy relax loose-fitting limp flaccid careless wide wanton untied unfastened

Topics loose topics

What do people use loose to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Tie
States Big Fit, size

Loose

  • What words describe something that is loose?
    loose too big
  • What words refer to something becoming loose?
    come loose
Person Body

Skin
Person Healthy Disease

Tooth decay
Daily life Adornment

Care for the teeth
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Steady, unsteady
Physical actions Move Pursue

Set free
States Quantity All Exact

Approximate
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Remove, take apart
Person Body functions

Defecate, feces

Conjugation loose conjugation

How do you conjugate loose?

loose · verb

Examples loose examples

How do I use loose in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This screw is loose.
We look on her as a loose woman.
I found the button loose.
Please be careful not to let the dog loose.
He has led a loose life since then.
It is like letting a tiger run loose.
This coat looks loose on me.
This tooth is loose.
These shoes are a little loose.
This button is loose.
This shirt is a little bit loose.
That dog is too dangerous to be left loose.
Let us students contribute to the welfare of the victims of the earthquake; even loose change will go a long way.
The joints of the chair were loose.
Don't tell him. He's got a loose tongue.
The girl let the bird loose.
She has a loose tongue.
Recently, I feel like the number of women with loose morals is increasing.
He pissed away his inheritance on booze and loose women.
You think that I am a loose woman, don't you Tom?
There's a homicidal maniac on the loose!

Movie subtitles

Don't you know the danger of another scandal broke loose? -I got it.
Sister, let's prepare some sterilised gauze to remove any loose flesh or burnt clothing.
Three bachelors letting loose in the city of love.
Unbroken colt on the loose.
But if we let her loose, Barbara will be coming down the aisle in a pair of curtains and a pelmet.
I don't want any loose ends.
In Paris for 48 hours on business and quite alone, the young Marquis, at a loose end, decides to go to the pictures.
The doctor's pet loony is loose again.
Turn the hounds loose!
You know, one's hose look horribly untidy when they hang loose-like.
What is it that gets loose when you start a fight and makes you what you think you're not?
I want to break loose.
Let'em loose, Tom.
Turn him loose, Tom.
It's a loose tooth, sir.
That's a loose tooth, sir, that does that.
It's only loose. It buzzes.
One's hose look horribly untidy when they hang loose-like.
There's plenty of it in this bank laying around loose.
I have some loose hunting clothes which I keep for my guests. that you can possibly get into.
Once that's loose, there's nothing to keep the log from coming down.
I'm going to put a thin layer of loose earth on top of the wall.
He thought it too dangerous with Hannay on the loose.
Mind he don't get loose again.
Tell him I don't like to see a friend of mine so unhappy, so one more catch, I'll cut him loose.
We'll cut him loose.
We'll cut him loose like a fart.
Sorry! Unbroken colt on the loose.
Keen is still loose.
It's too loose.
PRIEST: Loose hands.
Loose hands.
Now loose hands.
Look here. You touch that trip line. it'll pull that trigger free. Once that's loose, there's nothing to keep the log from coming down.
Give us a loose leg.
See if you can jar your friends loose for enough to eat.

News and current affairs

When it does - Pearl Harbor, September 2001 - all hell breaks loose.
For all the loose talk of American empire, the US is less tethered and has more degrees of freedom than Britain ever had.
Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and acquisition league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.
Accordingly, risk is unavoidable: monetary policy that is too loose risks inflation; if it is too tight, it can cause unnecessary unemployment, with all the suffering that follows.
Likewise, prior to Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to India in 2010, China began issuing visas on loose sheets of paper stapled into the passports of Kashmir residents applying to enter China - an indirect challenge to India's sovereignty.
The US Federal Reserve is sometimes blamed for the current mortgage crisis, because excessively loose monetary policy allegedly fueled the price boom that preceded it.
But loose monetary policy is not the whole story.
Though still in its infancy, the internet has shown that it has the power to shake China loose from its stagnant, isolated and repressive past.
Today's central bankers largely share a new conventional wisdom - about the benefits of loose monetary policy.
Loose fiscal and credit policies have been tightened as well, reducing large current-account and fiscal deficits.
The causes of rising income and wealth inequality are multiple and nuanced; but the unintended consequences of the recent unprecedented period of ultra-loose monetary policy deserves a chunk of the blame.
The report's argument is that while the stated motivation for ultra-loose monetary policy might be to guard against deflation and promote economic growth at a time when demand is weak, low interest rates also help governments fund their debt very cheaply.
Short-term market interest rates will fall, but, as investors begin to recognize the ultimate inflationary consequences of very loose monetary policy, longer-term interest rates will rise.
Such incremental steps gave rise to a loose system of debt restructuring.
In fact, the absence of a specific ideology was essential to the Arab Spring's initial success in Egypt and Tunisia, for it allowed a large number of young activists to forge loose alliances.
The problem with the Supreme Leader's calculation, however, is that Ahmadinejad is a loose cannon.
True, America's original thirteen colonies were a loose federation, and many Americans considered themselves citizens of their state first and of the US second as late as a century after the Revolution.
Why were they on the loose?
But the unprecedented period of coordinated loose monetary policy since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008 could be just as problematic.
If, amidst the indifference of the world, Funes chose to play fast and loose with it, Livingstone would be proven wrong: voting can change much, and sometimes for the worse.
If too loose, a rule is merely ornamental.
A loose and somewhat confused project, the Alliance of Civilizations aims to heal the wounds of conflict between Islam and the West through education, viable integration policies, and a better-informed dialogue with the media.
When that happens, we see the true result of loose monetary policy: not the creation of more economic activity, but the destruction of the natural mechanism of economic coordination and adjustment, robbing the system of its resilience.

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