Definition of loose

"loose" in the verb sense

1. free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose

grant freedom to free from confinement

2. unleash, let loose, loose

turn loose or free from restraint

"let loose mines"

"Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"

3. loosen, loose

make loose or looser

"loosen the tension on a rope"

4. loosen, relax, loose

become loose or looser or less tight

"The noose loosened"

"the rope relaxed"

"loose" in the adjective sense

1. loose

not compact or dense in structure or arrangement

"loose gravel"

2. loose

of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player

"a loose ball"

3. loose

not tight not closely constrained or constricted or constricting

"loose clothing"

"the large shoes were very loose"

4. informal, loose

not officially recognized or controlled

"an informal agreement"

"a loose organization of the local farmers"

5. free, loose, liberal

not literal

"a loose interpretation of what she had been told"

"a free translation of the poem"

6. lax, loose

emptying easily or excessively

"loose bowels"

7. unaffixed, loose

not affixed

"the stamp came loose"

8. loose, slack

not tense or taut

"the old man's skin hung loose and grey"

"slack and wrinkled skin"

"slack sails"

"a slack rope"

"a slack grip"

9. loose, open

of textures) full of small openings or gaps

"an open texture"

"a loose weave"

10. idle, loose

lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility

"idle talk"

"a loose tongue"

11. loose

not carefully arranged in a package

"a box of loose nails"

12. at large, escaped, loose, 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"

13. easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton

casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

"her easy virtue"

"he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"

"wanton behavior"

"loose" in the adverb sense

1. loose, free

without restraint

"cows in India are running loose"

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Quotations for loose

War begun, hell let loose. [ Italian Proverb ]

With loose reins; at full speed. [ French ]

Better go hack than loose yourself. [ Proverb ]

Fools tie knots and wise men loose them. [ Proverb ]

Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. [ Cowper ]

Your tongue is made of very loose leather. [ Proverb ]

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play.
Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day. [ Claudius ]

Where the knot is loose, the string slips. [ Proverb ]

There are a kind of men so loose of soul
That in their sleep will utter their affairs. [ William Shakespeare ]

Your thoughts close and your countenance loose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Birds, the free tenants of earth, air, and ocean,
Their forms all symmetry, their motion grace,
In plumage delicate and beautiful,
Thick without burthen, close as fish's scales.
Or loose as full blown poppies on the gale;
With wings that seem as they'd a soul within them.
They bear their owners with such sweet enchantment. [ James Montgomery ]

An ox, when he is loose, licks himself at pleasure. [ Proverb ]

Better give a shilling than lend and loose half a crown. [ Proverb ]

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The glittering tresses which, now shaken loose, Showered gold. [ Owen Meredith ]

Loose his beard and hoary hair streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air. [ Gray ]

The great source of a loose style is the injudicious use of synonymous terms. [ Blair ]

Like the faint streaks of light broke loose from darkness, and dawning into blushes. [ Dryden ]

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults. [ Roscommon ]

Contention, like a horse full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, and bears down all before him. [ William Shakespeare ]

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. [ Luther ]

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. [ Thomas Paine ]

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. [ Pope ]

Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip. But only crow-bars loose the bull-dog's lip; Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields, Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Such a noise arose as the shroud? make at sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many tunes, - hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up; and had their faces been loose, this day they had been lost. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. [ Rousseau ]

He that has complex ideas, without particular names for them, would be in no better case than a book-seller who had volumes that lay unbound and without titles, which he could make known to others only by showing the loose sheets. [ Locke ]

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view. [ Goldsmith ]

I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds
And offices of life; to life itself,
With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. [ Burns ]

You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

loose in Scrabble®

The word loose is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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loose in Words With Friends™

The word loose is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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