<b><font size="4">"loose"</font></b><br/><b>adjective</b> <ol> <li>not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker" </li> <li>not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel" [ant: <a href="../compact.html">compact</a>] </li> <li>(of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball" </li> <li>not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose" [ant: <a href="../tight.html">tight</a>] </li> <li>not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" [syn: <a href="../informal.html">informal</a>] </li> <li>not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: <a href="../free.html">free</a>, <a href="../liberal.html">liberal</a>] </li> <li>emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" [syn: <a href="../lax.html">lax</a>] </li> <li>not affixed; "the stamp came loose" [syn: <a href="../unaffixed.html">unaffixed</a>] [ant: <a href="../affixed.html">affixed</a>] </li> <li>not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" [syn: <a href="../slack.html">slack</a>] </li> <li>(of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" [syn: <a href="../open.html">open</a>] </li> <li>not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks" </li> <li>lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" [syn: <a href="../idle.html">idle</a>] </li> <li>not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails" </li> <li>freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough" </li> <li>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: <a href="/">at large(p)</a>, <a href="/">at liberty(p)</a>, <a href="../escaped.html">escaped</a>, <a href="/">on the loose(p)</a>] </li> <li>casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" [syn: <a href="../easy.html">easy</a>, <a href="../light.html">light</a>, <a href="../promiscuous.html">promiscuous</a>, <a href="../sluttish.html">sluttish</a>, <a href="../wanton.html">wanton</a>] </li> <li>not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers"</li> </ol> <b>adverb</b> <ol> <li>without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" [syn: <a href="../free.html">free</a>]</li> </ol> <b>verb</b> <ol> <li>grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: <a href="../free.html">free</a>, <a href="../liberate.html">liberate</a>, <a href="../release.html">release</a>, <a href="../unloose.html">unloose</a>, <a href="../unloosen.html">unloosen</a>] [ant: <a href="../confine.html">confine</a>] </li> <li>turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity" [syn: <a href="../unleash.html">unleash</a>, <a href="/">let loose</a>] </li> <li>make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope" [syn: <a href="../loosen.html">loosen</a>] [ant: <a href="../stiffen.html">stiffen</a>] </li> <li>become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" [syn: <a href="../loosen.html">loosen</a>, <a href="../relax.html">relax</a>] [ant: <a href="../stiffen.html">stiffen</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../loose.html">http://www.word.sc/loose</a>

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