Synonyms: loose, loosen, relax
Definition: become loose or looser or less tight
Usage: The noose loosened; the rope relaxed
Similar words: weaken
Definition: become weaker
Usage: The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days
Definition: make loose or looser
Usage: loosen the tension on a rope
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: unleash, let loose, loose
Definition: turn loose or free from restraint
Usage: let loose mines; Loose terrible plagues upon humanity
Similar words: let go, let go of, release, relinquish
Definition: release, as from one's grip
Usage: Let go of the door handle, please!; relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall
Synonyms: easy, promiscuous, light, loose, wanton, sluttish
Definition: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
Usage: her easy virtue; he was told to avoid loose (or light) women; wanton behavior
Synonyms: loose
Definition: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
Usage: loose gravel
Similar words: light
Definition: (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
Usage: light soil
Similar words: unfirm, shifting
Definition: (of soil) unstable
Usage: shifting sands; unfirm earth
Similar words: silty
Definition: full of silt
Usage: silty soil
Similar words: unconsolidated
Definition: loose and unstratified
Usage: unconsolidated soil
Synonyms: loose
Definition: (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
Usage: a loose ball
Similar words: uncontrolled
Definition: not being under control; out of control
Usage: the greatest uncontrolled health problem is AIDS; uncontrolled growth
Definition: emptying easily or excessively
Usage: loose bowels
Similar words: regular, unconstipated
Definition: not constipated
Synonyms: liberal, loose, free
Definition: not literal
Usage: a loose interpretation of what she had been told; a free translation of the poem
Similar words: inexact
Definition: not exact
Synonyms: escaped, loose, at large, on the loose
Definition: having escaped, especially from confinement
Usage: a convict still at large; searching for two escaped prisoners; dogs loose on the streets; criminals on the loose in the neighborhood
Similar words: free
Definition: able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
Usage: free enterprise; a free port; a free country; I have an hour free; free will; free of racism; feel free to stay as long as you wish; a free choice
Synonyms: loose
Definition: not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
Usage: loose clothing; the large shoes were very loose
Similar words: loose-fitting, baggy, sloppy
Definition: not fitting closely; hanging loosely
Usage: baggy trousers; a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather
Similar words: flyaway
Definition: (of hair or clothing) worn loose
Usage: her flyaway hair; a flyaway coat
Definition: not officially recognized or controlled
Usage: an informal agreement; a loose organization of the local farmers
Similar words: unofficial
Definition: not having official authority or sanction
Usage: a sort of unofficial mayor; an unofficial estimate; he participated in an unofficial capacity
Synonyms: loose
Definition: not carefully arranged in a package
Usage: a box of loose nails
Definition: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
Usage: idle talk; a loose tongue
Similar words: irresponsible
Definition: showing lack of care for consequences
Usage: behaved like an irresponsible idiot; hasty and irresponsible action
Definition: (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
Usage: an open texture; a loose weave
Definition: of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles
Usage: coarse meal; coarse sand; a coarse weave
Definition: not tense or taut
Usage: the old man's skin hung loose and grey; slack and wrinkled skin; slack sails; a slack rope
Similar words: lax
Definition: lacking in strength or firmness or resilience
Usage: a lax rope; a limp handshake