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Exact Match:

loose

not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers"

not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel"

(of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball"

not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker"

freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough"

not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose"

not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"

not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks"

(of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave"

not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope"

without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"

Synonyms:

• Bohemian,
• Paphian,
• abandoned,
• abate,
• absonant,
• adrift,
• affable,
• afloat,
• afoot and lighthearted,
• aid,
• aimless,
• aleatoric,
• aleatory,
• alleviate,
• amorphous,
• approximate,
• approximative,
• at large,
• at liberty,
• aweigh,
• bagging,
• baggy,
• ballooning,
• barbarous,
• bate,
• beat-up,
• bedraggled,
• blobby,
• blowzy,
• blurred,
• blurry,
• break loose,
• broad,
• by the way,
• capricious,
• careless,
• cast off,
• cast-off,
• casual,
• chambering,
• chance,
• chancy,
• chaotic,
• chintzy,
• clear,
• clear the way,
• confused,
• contradictory,
• contrary to reason,
• cool off,
• cordial,
• corrupt,
• culpably negligent,
• dangling,
• debauched,
• degage,
• deliver,
• derelict,
• desultory,
• detach,
• detached,
• deviative,
• diffuse,
• digressive,
• dilapidated,
• discharge,
• disconnected,
• discontinuous,
• discursive,
• disengage,
• disengaged,
• disenthrall,
• disjoin,
• disjointed,
• disordered,
• disorganized,
• disperse,
• dispersed,
• dissolute,
• doff,
• drabbletailed,
• draggled,
• draggletailed,
• drooping,
• droopy,
• ease,
• ease off,
• ease up,
• easy,
• easygoing,
• emancipate,
• emancipated,
• emit,
• episodic,
• erroneous,
• escape,
• escaped,
• excursive,
• expedite,
• explain,
• extravagant,
• facilitate,
• fallacious,
• familiar,
• fast,
• faulty,
• fire,
• flabby,
• flaccid,
• flapping,
• flawed,
• fled,
• flee,
• flimsy,
• floating,
• floppy,
• flowing,
• flown,
• foggy,
• folksy,
• footloose,
• footloose and fancy-free,
• free,
• free and easy,
• free as air,
• freeborn,
• freed,
• frowzy,
• frumpish,
• frumpy,
• fugitive,
• fuzzy,
• general,
• give out with,
• go-as-you-please,
• go-go,
• gracious,
• grease,
• grease the ways,
• grease the wheels,
• grubby,
• hanging,
• hasten,
• haymish,
• hazy,
• help along,
• hit-or-miss,
• homely,
• homey,
• ill-defined,
• illogical,
• immoderate,
• immoral,
• impotent,
• imprecise,
• improper,
• in disarray,
• in disorder,
• in rags,
• in the clear,
• inaccurate,
• inadvertent,
• inattentive,
• inauthentic,
• inchoate,
• incoherent,
• inconclusive,
• incongruous,
• inconsequent,
• inconsequential,
• inconsistent,
• inconstant,
• incontinent,
• incorrect,
• indecisive,
• indefinable,
• indefinite,
• indeterminable,
• indeterminate,
• indifferent,
• indistinct,
• indulgent,
• inexact,
• infelicitous,
• informal,
• intemperate,
• invalid,
• irrational,
• irregular,
• irrepressible,
• laissez-faire,
• lax,
• lenient,
• lessen,
• let down,
• let fly,
• let go,
• let up,
• lewd,
• liberate,
• liberated,
• libertine,
• licentious,
• light,
• limp,
• loose-moraled,
• loosen,
• lop,
• lop-eared,
• loppy,
• lubricate,
• lumpen,
• make clear,
• make way for,
• manumit,
• maundering,
• messy,
• mitigate,
• movable,
• mussy,
• natural,
• neglectful,
• neglecting,
• negligent,
• nodding,
• nonadhesive,
• noninterfering,
• nonrestrictive,
• nonscientific,
• nonspecific,
• not following,
• obscure,
• of easy virtue,
• of loose morals,
• off-guard,
• offhand,
• offhanded,
• oil,
• on the loose,
• open the way,
• open up,
• orderless,
• out of,
• out of control,
• out of hand,
• out of line,
• out of plumb,
• out of square,
• out of true,
• overindulgent,
• overly permissive,
• overpermissive,
• paralogical,
• pave the way,
• permissive,
• perverted,
• plain,
• poky,
• prepare the way,
• procrastinating,
• profligate,
• promiscuous,
• quicken,
• ragged,
• raggedy,
• rambling,
• rampant,
• random,
• reasonless,
• reckless,
• reinless,
• relax,
• relaxed,
• release,
• released,
• remiss,
• remit,
• remove,
• remove friction,
• rickety,
• riotous,
• rough,
• roving,
• rubbery,
• ruinous,
• run interference for,
• runaway,
• sagging,
• sagging in folds,
• saggy,
• scamping,
• scatter,
• scot-free,
• scraggly,
• seedy,
• self-annulling,
• self-contradictory,
• self-refuting,
• senseless,
• separate,
• set free,
• shabby,
• shadowed forth,
• shadowy,
• shaky,
• shapeless,
• shoddy,
• shoot,
• simple,
• simplify,
• sit back,
• skimping,
• slack,
• slack off,
• slack up,
• slacken,
• slake,
• slapdash,
• slatternly,
• slighting,
• slipshod,
• sloppy,
• slovenly,
• slurring,
• sluttish,
• smooth,
• smooth the way,
• soap the ways,
• sociable,
• soft,
• solecistic,
• sordid,
• speed,
• spread about,
• squalid,
• started,
• stochastic,
• streaming,
• swag,
• sweeping,
• tacky,
• take it easy,
• take off,
• tattered,
• unaffected,
• unanchored,
• unassuming,
• unattached,
• unauthentic,
• unbar,
• unbend,
• unbind,
• unblock,
• unbolt,
• unbound,
• unbrace,
• unbridle,
• unbridled,
• unbuckle,
• unbutton,
• uncage,
• unceremonious,
• unchain,
• unchained,
• unchaste,
• unchecked,
• uncircumspect,
• unclasp,
• unclear,
• unclog,
• uncoerced,
• uncommitted,
• uncompelled,
• unconfined,
• unconnected,
• unconstrained,
• uncontrolled,
• unconventional,
• uncurbed,
• undefined,
• undestined,
• undetermined,
• undo,
• undone,
• unengaged,
• unfactual,
• unfasten,
• unfastened,
• unfetter,
• unfettered,
• unfixed,
• unforced,
• ungag,
• unglue,
• ungoverned,
• ungrammatic,
• unguarded,
• unhandcuff,
• unhobble,
• uninhibited,
• uninvolved,
• unjam,
• unkempt,
• unlace,
• unlash,
• unlatch,
• unleash,
• unlock,
• unloose,
• unloosen,
• unmanacle,
• unmastered,
• unmeasured,
• unmoored,
• unmuzzle,
• unmuzzled,
• unneat,
• unofficial,
• unpen,
• unphilosophical,
• unpinion,
• unplain,
• unprecise,
• unreasonable,
• unreined,
• unrepressed,
• unreserved,
• unrestrained,
• unrestrictive,
• unrigorous,
• unruly,
• unscientific,
• unsecured,
• unshackle,
• unshackled,
• unsightly,
• unspecific,
• unspecified,
• unstick,
• unstrain,
• unstrap,
• unstring,
• unstuck,
• unstudied,
• unsubdued,
• unsuppressed,
• untether,
• untidy,
• untie,
• untied,
• untighten,
• untruss,
• unwary,
• unwatchful,
• unyoke,
• vague,
• veiled,
• vent,
• wandering,
• wanton,
• wayward,
• weak,
• weigh anchor,
• well out of,
• whorish,
• wild,
• without reason