loose
41loose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. free, detached; flowing, unbound; vague, incoherent, diffuse; unrestrained, slack; dissipated, wanton, dissolute. See disjunction, impurity. v. t. free; loosen, unbind, undo; relax. See freedom. Ant …
42loose — 1. adjective 1) a loose floorboard Syn: not secure, unsecured, unattached, detached, wobbly, unsteady, dangling, free 2) she wore her hair loose Syn: untied, free, down …
43loose — 1. promiscuous Used of women rather than men, from the relaxation of tighter standards. A loose woman is a prostitute: There were 8,600 prostitutes known to the police, but this was far from... the number of loose women in the… …
44loose — 1. verb /luːs/ a) To let loose, to free from restraints. Im going to loose this game. b) To unfasten, to loosen. Syn: free, release …
45loose on — phrasal verb loose on or loose upon [transitive] Word forms loose on : present tense I/you/we/they loose on he/she/it looses on present participle loosing on past tense loosed on past participle loosed on loose something on/upon someone/something …
46loose — Synonyms and related words: 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 …
47loose — Hemo, puhemo, alu alu, hō alu alu, pū alu. Also: ope alu, aluhe e, holokake, hūalakē, hōlokeloke, ko o, lehe, lu e, māwehe, māweke, mōhalu, puhalu, halu, uhalu, paleha, pōlewa, naue, ka amola, palahemo, pūlehe, pōnulu, pōnulunulu, pōnununu,… …
48loose — 1. on the loose Out of prison. Drinking heavily. Enjoying oneself. 2. See screw loose. 3. at a loose end With nothing to do …
49loose — [13] Loose is one of a large family of words that go back ultimately to Indo European *lau , *leu , *lu , which denoted ‘undoing’. It includes (via Greek) analyse and paralyse, (via Latin) dissolve and solution, and (via Germanic) lose and the… …
50loose — luËs v. free, let go, release; make loose; untie, unfasten; shoot (arrow, gun, etc.) adj. free; released; untied; disconnected; slack; weak; not tight; unrestrained; wanton; careless; imprecise; not defined adv. in a loose manner …
