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.”
But _now_ suppose as much as you choose; give a loose to your fancy, indulge your imagination in every possible flight which the subject will afford, and unless you believe me actually married, you cannot greatly err.
catch hold of this rope—Will the roof bear?—Mind that loose slate—Oh, it’s coming down!
Holmes, when I heard a shocking story of how he had turned a cat loose in an aviary, and I was so horrified at his brutal cruelty that I would have nothing more to do with him.’ She rummaged in a bureau, and presently she produced a photograph of a woman, shamefully defaced and mutilated with a knife.
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