Word Definition

Loose

  1. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
  2. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
  3. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.
  4. To set sail.
  5. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
  6. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
  7. To solve; to interpret.
  8. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
  9. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
  10. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
  11. Unconnected; rambling.
  12. Freedom from restraint.
  13. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
  14. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
  15. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
  16. A letting go; discharge.
  17. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.