loose
/lus/ adjective A2- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly. · This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.
- Not held or packaged together. · You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose.
- Not under control. · The dog is loose again.
- Not fitting closely. · I wear loose clothes when it is hot.
- Not compact. · It is difficult walking on loose gravel.· a cloth of loose texture
- Relaxed. · She danced with a loose flowing movement.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate. · a loose way of reasoning
- Indiscreet. · Loose talk costs lives.
Comparative looser · Superlative loosest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“There used to be a dog let loose in the yard at night, but it has been taken to the house at Auteuil, to that you went to, you know.”
Cecil Barker’s tall, loose-jointed figure was a familiar one in the main street of Birlstone village; for he was a frequent and welcome visitor at the Manor House.
White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.
“Has the Corsican ogre broken loose?” cried a third.
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