1.  loose(v = verb.social) free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen - grant freedom to; free from confinement;
Sample sentences: They want to %s the prisoners

2.  loose(v = verb.contact) let loose, unleash - turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

3.  loose(v = verb.change) loosen - make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope"
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

4.  loose(v = verb.change) loosen, relax - become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Something ----s

1.  loose(a = adj.all) - not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel"
Antonym: compact
Derived form noun looseness₄

2.  loose(s = adj.all) - (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball"

3.  loose(a = adj.all) - not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose"
Antonym: tight
Derived form noun looseness₄

4.  loose(s = adj.all) informal - not officially recognized or controlled; "a loose organization of the local farmers"; "an informal agreement"

5.  loose(s = adj.all) free, liberal - not literal; "a free translation of the poem"; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"
Derived form noun looseness₃

6.  loose(s = adj.all) lax - emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"
Derived form noun looseness₁

7.  loose(a = adj.all) unaffixed - not affixed; "the stamp came loose"
Derived form noun looseness₄

8.  loose(s = adj.all) slack - not tense or taut; "a slack rope"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"
Derived form noun looseness₅

9.  loose(s = adj.all) open - (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "a loose weave"; "an open texture"

10.  loose(s = adj.all) idle - lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "a loose tongue"; "idle talk"
Derived form noun looseness₂

11.  loose(s = adj.all) - not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"

12.  loose(s = adj.all) at large, escaped, on the loose - having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"

13.  loose(s = adj.all) easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton - casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "her easy virtue"; "wanton behavior"
Derived form noun looseness₆

   loose(r = adv.all) free - without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"

1.  Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. [1913 Webster]

2.  Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of. [1913 Webster]

3.  Not tight or close; as, a loose garment. [1913 Webster]

4.  Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture. [1913 Webster]

5.  Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning. [1913 Webster]

6.  Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. [1913 Webster]

7.  Unconnected; rambling. [1913 Webster]

8.  Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke. [1913 Webster]

9.  Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. [1913 Webster]

10.  Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. Dryden. [1913 Webster]

1.  Freedom from restraint. Prior. [1913 Webster]

2.  A letting go; discharge. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

1.  To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve. [1913 Webster]

2.  To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit. [1913 Webster]

3.  To relax; to loosen; to make less strict. [1913 Webster]

4.  To solve; to interpret. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

   To set sail. Acts xiii. 13. [1913 Webster]

loose, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 a not or no longer held by bonds or restraint. b (of an animal) not confined or tethered etc.
2 detached or detachable from its place (has come loose).
3 not held together or contained or fixed.
4 not specially fastened or packaged (loose papers; had her hair loose).
5 hanging partly free (a loose end).
6 slack, relaxed; not tense or tight.
7 not compact or dense (loose soil).
8 (of language, concepts, etc.) inexact; conveying only the general sense.
9 (preceding an agent noun) doing the expressed action in a loose or careless manner (a loose thinker).
10 morally lax; dissolute (loose living).
11 (of the tongue) likely to speak indiscreetly.
12 (of the bowels) tending to diarrhoea.
13 Sport a (of a ball) in play but not in any player's possession. b (of play etc.) with the players not close together.
14 Cricket a (of bowling) inaccurately pitched. b (of fielding) careless or bungling.
15 (in comb.) loosely (loose-flowing; loose-fitting).<