looseadjective
uk/luːs/us/luːs/loose adjective (NOT FASTENED)
B2 not firmly held or fastened in place:
B2 Loose hair is not tied back:
Loose things are not held together or attached to anything else:
More examples
- A wire has come loose at the back.
- It's no wonder your shaver isn't working. There's a loose connection in the plug.
- Snowflakes are loose aggregates of ice crystals.
- I put the loose floorboard back and nailed it down.
- The machine is working erratically - there must be a loose connection.
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Flexible, loose and yielding
- adrift
- bendable
- bendy
- ductile
- elastic
- floppy
- flowing
- jointed
- loose-fitting
- loosely
- looseness
- plastic
- slackness
- spring
- springy
- sprung
- stretch
- stretchy
- supple
- yield
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loose adjective (NOT TIGHT)
B1 (of clothes) not fitting closely to the body:
More examples
- Loose clothing will keep you comfortable.
- He wore a loose pair of trousers.
- She's lost so much weight, all her clothes are loose.
- She wore a loose jumper.
- Make sure the collar is loose enough.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Flexible, loose and yielding
- adrift
- bendable
- bendy
- ductile
- elastic
- floppy
- flowing
- jointed
- loose-fitting
- loosely
- looseness
- plastic
- slackness
- spring
- springy
- sprung
- stretch
- stretchy
- supple
- yield
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loose adjective (NOT EXACT)
C2 not tightly controlled, or not exact:
More examples
- I can give you a loose figure.
- It's a loose equivalent of the French version.
- I can do you a loose translation.
- The story has a loose basis in fact.
- His latest movie is a loose adaptation of King Lear.
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Approximate
- (a) sort of idiom
- -ish
- about
- approx
- approximate
- approximately
- effect
- in the vicinity of idiom
- loosely
- maybe
- more
- more or less idiom
- round
- rule
- sense
- something
- something
- something like 96 percent, half, etc. idiom
- somewhere
- sort
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loose adjective (IMMORAL)
old-fashioned disapproving having low morals; sexually free:
Idiom(s)
looseverb [ T ]
uk/luːs/us/luːs/to speak or express emotions very freely, especially in an uncontrolled way:
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- croon
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- expressive
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- waffle
- yap
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