- (superl.) Unconnected; rambling.
- (n.) A letting go; discharge.
- (superl.) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
- (superl.) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
- (a.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
- (v.i.) To set sail.
- (n.) Freedom from restraint.
- (superl.) Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
- (a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
- (a.) To solve; to interpret.
- (superl.) Not dense, close, compact or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
- (superl.) Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
- (superl.) Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of.
- (a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
- (superl.) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
- (superl.) Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
- (superl.) Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style or way of reasoning.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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