Word Meanings - LOOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,

Additional info about word: LOOSE

laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak. 2. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of. Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts Addison. 3. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment. 4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture. With horse and chariots ranked in loose array. Milton. 5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning. The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation. Whewel. 6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. The loose morality which he had learned. Sir W. Scott. 7. Unconnected; rambling. Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages. I. Watts. 8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke. 9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. Loose ladies in delight. Spenser. 10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. Dryden. At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. -- Fast and loose. See under Fast. -- To break loose. See under Break. -- Loose pulley. See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. -- To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOOSE)

• drift
• Loose
• afloat
• agog
• abroad
• abroach
• distracted
• disordered
• Afloat
• Adrift
• at sea
• loose
• dazed
• Astray
• missing
• about
• at large
• wrong
• erring
• wandering
• Away
• Far
• afar
• separate
• detached
• Declamatory
• Loud
• noisy
• incoherent
• discursive
• inconsecutive
• grandiloquent
• rhetorical
• high-sounding

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LOOSE)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to LOOSE)

• DRIFT
  That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. Kane. Drift anchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n. -- Drift epoch , the glacial epoch. -- Drift net, a
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• ERRABLENESS
  Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
• ERRHINE
  A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
• MISSEL
  Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• MISSIFICATE
  To perform Mass. Milton.
• MISSTAYED
  Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
• MISSILE
  A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• ERRANTRY
  1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. 2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• DAZZLEMENT
  Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• MISSAY
  1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• ABERRATE
  To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• VERRUGAS
  An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• SERR
  To crowd, press, or drive together. Bacon.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• INERRABLE
  Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• BERRETTA
  A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics (more info) of L. birrus, birrum, a cloak to keep off rain, cf. Gr. tawny, red:
• FERRIER
  A ferryman. Calthrop.
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• TERRICOLAE
  A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• BISERRATE
  Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.