Loose

Definition: Loose

Loose

Adjective

1. Not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker".

2. Not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel".

3. (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball".

4. Not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose".

5. Not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers".

6. Not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem".

7. Emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels".

8. Not affixed; "the stamp came loose".

9. Not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope".

10. : (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave".

11. : not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks".

12. : lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue".

13. : not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails".

14. : freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough".

15. : having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood".

16. : casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior".

17. : not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers".

Adverb

1. Without restraint; "cows in India are running loose".

Verb

1. Grant freedom to; free from confinement.

2. Turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity".

3. Become less tight; "the rope relaxed".

4. Make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "loose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Loose \Loose\, adjective. [Comparative Looser; superlative Loosest.]. (references)

Literature

Mining

Shipping

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Loose

Coherence

Adjective: nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated; uncombined;

Deviation

Adjective: deviating; Verb: aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like.

Diffuseness

Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.

Disjunction

Disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock; (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free; (liberate).

Adjective: disjoined; Verb: discontinuous; abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated; Verb: insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft.

Feebleness

Careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent); slipshod, slipslop; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling; (diffuse).

Freedom

Adjective: free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself.

Impurity

Adjective: impure; unclean; (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.

Laxity

Adjective: lax, loose; slack; remiss; (careless); weak.

Liberation

Verb: liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver; absolve; (acquit).

Unfetter; untie; loose; (disjoin); loosen, relax; unbolt, unbar, unclose, uncork, unclog, unhand, unbind, unchain, unharness, unleash; disengage, disentangle; clear, extricate, unloose.

Reasoning,

Weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.

Unintelligibility

Indefinite, garbled; (indistinct); perplexed; (confused); undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical; acroamatic, acroamatical; metempirical; transcendental; occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed.

Crosswords: Loose

Where I will unveil a fifth of whiskey, I have hidden here under my loose, flowing sports shirt (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman)

If you loose, does the treasury department give you back your money (The North Avenue Irregulars; writing credit: Albert Fay Hill; Don Tait)

And just to set the record straightRoy O'Bannon is not attracted to loose women; loose women are attracted to me. (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar)

If I had known that there were loose women in Las Vegas, I would've never let you go (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Hey, it's like that old goat says: Rule 11: It's all just a game, so let loose and have fun with it (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

And I know when to let you loose. (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply)

Get loose now, get down (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas)

When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to loose ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

I had nothing but a life to loose (Everyday; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

So let's just cut it loose (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx)

How to act insane: When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling, "Run for your lives, they're loose! (references; author: unknown)

Five Loose Women (1974)

O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose (1974)

The Savage Is Loose (1974)

Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973)

Seal on the Loose (1970)

Rickki Don't Loose That Number (performing artist: Steely Dan)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Loose Tea (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Elephant on the Loose (Little Bill (8X8 Paperback), 1) (reference)

• Loose Screws (reference)

• Loose That Man & Let Him Go! (reference)

• My Loose Thread (reference)

• The Caboose Who Got Loose (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hanging Loose (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Phil Collins - Live & Loose in Paris (reference)

• Rolie Polie Olie - Tooth on the Loose (reference)

• The Unknown Jonathan Winters - On the Loose (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Loose in the World (reference)

• Loose Screw (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This version of the Ped-O-Jet has a strap that holds vaccine bottle in place keeping the bottle from working loose during operations. Prior to this model, clamps were the only way the bottle was held in place. Credit: CDC.

Spring Garden Harbor section of Baltimore Harbor. Accompanied as loose photos in the "Monthly Journal of the Engineers' Club of Baltimore" for February 1914. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The North side of Baltimore Harbor as seen from a boat at anchor. Accompanied as loose photos in the "Monthly Journal of the Engineers' Club of Baltimore" for February 1914. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Kicking up a little loose ice and snow during takeoff. The last plane at South Pole Station before the fall sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A diver uses a pneumatic drill to create a hole in the reef framework to secure loose coral fragments. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A diver moves a loose fragment of Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmatta, in preparation to reattach the fragment. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

During a storm, HYDROLAB once broke loose and floated 25 miles away. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Loose stuffing. Credit: Library of Congress.

Another elephant loose. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

That which makes the community, and brings men out of the loose state of nature, into one politic society, is the agreement which every one has with the rest to incorporate, and act as one body, and so be one distinct common- wealth. (Second Treatise of Government)

Up till the year 1933 or even 1935, Germany might have been saved from the awful fate which has overtaken her and we might all have been spared the miseries Hitler let loose upon mankind. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But Eponine did not loose her hold and redoubled her caresses

He had loose redbrown hair and tender shapely strong freckled hands

Pots and pans, extra clothes, went in loose, for their boxes had been burned

They apprehended my breaking loose, that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Loose bowel movements. (references)

The joints can also be very loose. (references)

Loose stools, diarrhea, and abdominal cramping are the most common symptoms. (references)

Business

Many, however, could best be described as right-wing-oriented, having loose, if any, practical or ideological ties to extremist groups. (references)

Argentine clothing preferences have traditionally leaned toward European-based design; however, American clothing is generally accepted for its good price/quality ratio and in the casual and sports apparel sector, U.S. suppliers should do well. Adolescents have taken a strong liking to comfortable, loose fitting casual wear whereas adults are more inclined to elegant casual attire. (references)

The Phoenix Consortium, a loose alliance of West Midlands businessmen, announced that it had agreed to buy Rover from BMW for a symbolic BPS 10 ($16). The surprise move came just over a week after Alchemy Partners had broken off talks with BMW. It was widely acclaimed as a successful alternative to the Alchemy deal, which would likely have resulted in the loss of up to 19,000 jobs between Rover’s Longbridge factory in Birmingham and its suppliers. (references)

Discrimination

Papua New Guinea

The democratically elected government, based on loose coalitions, consistently has avoided favoring any group. (references)

Economic History

United Arab Emirates

Administratively, the UAE is a loose federation of seven emirates, each with its own ruler. (references)

Lebanon

It was from these factions that Hizballah emerged in 1982 from a loose coalition of Shi'a groups. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

These groups included: The Interahamwe militia of Hutus, mostly from Rwanda, Hutu members of the former Rwandan armed forces, and other Rwandan Hutu militiaman, some of whom took part in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda and who fought the Tutsi-dominated Government of Rwanda; the Mai Mai, a loose association of traditional Congolese local defense forces, which primarily fought Rwandan Government forces and their Congolese allies; the ADF, consisting of Ugandan opposition forces supported by the Government of Sudan, which largely was inactive during the year; and several groups of Hutus from Burundi fighting the Tutsi-dominated Government of Burundi. (references)

Indigenous People

Belize

In October 2000, the Government and the Mayan People of Southern Belize (a loose association of Mayan and nongovernmental groups) signed a collective agreement to address the grievances set forth in a petition by Mayan community leaders in the summer of 1998. However, Mayan leaders reported that by year's end, the agreement had produced no concrete results since its signing. (references)

Minorities

Germany

Most of the violent individuals (85 percent of whom are skinheads) could best be described as rightwing-oriented, having loose, if any, practical or ideological ties to organized extremist groups. (references)

Political Economy

BANGLADESH

Loose fiscal and monetary policies have added to Bangladesh's balance of payments problems and have limited much needed credit expansion to the private sector. (references)

Benin

Although a loose alliance of progovernment deputies holds a 42 to 41 seat majority, some progovernment deputies side with the opposition, depending on the issue. (references)

Comoros

The Fomboni Declaration provides for a loose confederation between the islands, giving each island the ability to maintain an army and conduct its own foreign relations. (references)

Political Rights

Moldova

The Braghis Alliance (a very loose coalition of mainly centrist political figures, government members, and independent Deputies under the nominal leadership of then-Prime Minister Dumitru Braghis) received 13.4 percent of the vote. (references)

Trade

Japan

Even when credit is loose, companies sometimes borrow in excess of their need in order to maintain good relations with their bank and to ensure that funds will be available in leaner years. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Increased intake of non-alcoholic beverages is advised, as well as wearing loose fitting, cotton clothing. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

Women in public spaces were required to wear a burqa, a loose, head-to-toe garment that has a small cloth screen for vision. (references)

Worker Rights

Zimbabwe

However, most trafficking from or through the country appeared to involve loose organizations of independent truck drivers and recruiters, most of whom did not have connections to overseas crime groups. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "loose": a loose tooth ♦ A screw loose ♦ a woman of loose morals ♦ all hell broke loose ♦ at a loose end ♦ At loose ends ♦ be at a loose end ♦ be loose ♦ be on the loose ♦ break loose ♦ cast loose ♦ come loose ♦ cut loose ♦ cut oneself loose ♦ Fast and loose ♦ Fast and loose pulleys ♦ get loose ♦ get loose from dryness ♦ give a loose to ♦ give a loose to indulgence ♦ give a loose to mirth ♦ give a loose to one's feelings ♦ have a loose tongue ♦ have a screw loose ♦ have a tile loose ♦ having a screw loose ♦ he has got a screw loose ♦ Joint Loose Bodies ♦ lead a loose life ♦ leave a loose thread ♦ let loose ♦ letting loose ♦ loose an eye ♦ loose bowels ♦ loose box ♦ loose bytes ♦ loose cannon ♦ loose caste ♦ loose change ♦ loose color ♦ loose colour ♦ loose connection ♦ loose consciousness ♦ loose control of the ♦ loose count of smth. ♦ loose countenance ♦ loose covers ♦ Loose Creek ♦ loose dress ♦ loose earth ♦ loose end ♦ loose ends ♦ loose fish ♦ loose flesh ♦ loose garment ♦ loose grade bananas ♦ loose grapes ♦ loose hair ♦ loose heart ♦ loose hold ♦ loose leaf ♦ loose leaves ♦ loose life ♦ Loose liver ♦ loose living ♦ loose material ♦ loose morals ♦ loose off ♦ loose off at ♦ loose off at smb. ♦ loose one's cool ♦ loose one's credit ♦ loose one's footing ♦ loose one's marbles ♦ loose one's patience ♦ loose one's seat ♦ loose one's senses ♦ loose one's sight ♦ loose or free ♦ loose paper ♦ loose papers ♦ loose pick ♦ loose pin ♦ Loose pulley ♦ loose rock dump ♦ loose rot ♦ loose sentence ♦ loose sheet ♦ loose sheets ♦ loose sight of ♦ loose smut ♦ loose straw ♦ loose suggestion ♦ loose supposition ♦ loose the temper ♦ loose the thread ♦ loose thinker ♦ loose thread ♦ loose tongue ♦ loose trousers ♦ loose woman. Additional references.

Beginning with "loose": loose-armed, loose-based, loose-bottomed, loose-box, loose-boxes, loose-coupled, loose-covers, loose-cut, loose-end, loose-feed, loose-fitting, loose-flowing, loose-footed, loose-forward, loose-growing, loose-hanging, loose-head, loose-heads, loose-horned, loose-inserted, loose-jointed, loose-jowled, loose-knit, loose-laid, loose-lay, loose-leaf, loose-leaf binder, loose-leaf file, loose-leaf lettuce, loose-leafed, loose-leaved, loose-legged, loose-limbed, loose-linked, loose-lipped, loose-liver, loose-livers, loose-living, loose-lying, loose-packed, loose-riding, loose-rolled, loose-set, loose-shouldered, loose-skinned, loose-textured, loose-tight, loose-tongued, loose-trousered, loose-weave, loose-woven, loose-wristed.

Ending with "loose": broad-and-loose, foot-loose, screw-loose, tight-loose.

Albanian

liroj (acquit, cast off, cheapen, detach, discharge, disengage, dismiss, ease, excuse, free, free oneself, let go, let loose, liberate, loosen, pay, pay out, relax, release, slack, slacken, unbind, unstring, vacate), liri (ease, freedom, liberty, looseness), shprehje (emphasis, exponent, expression, locution, phrase, phrases, profession, term, transfusion, utterance, voice), ngadalësoj (decelerate, hold up, let down, make slower, put back, retard, slack up, slacken), i zgjidhur, i shthurur (debauched, disorganized, dissipated, dissolute, impure, libertine, licentious, profligate, promiscuous, unrighteous), i pazënë (clear, empty, free, open, unoccupied, vacant, void), i pangjitur, i liruar (disengaged, ex service, free, immune), i lirë (at ease, available, brummagem, cheap, clear, disengaged, disposable, empty, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, frugal, inexpensive, native, off, off duty, off-hour, open, quit, scotfree, twopenny, unattached, unbound, uncostly, uninhibited, unoccupied, vacant), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, lax, licentious, limp, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i çlirët (abandoned, flippant, floppy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير دقيق (inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, looseness, unfaithful, untrue), ‏رخو (flabby, flaccid, lax, limp, quaggy, slack, sluggish, soft), ‏رخي (easy, loosen, mollify, relax, relinquish, slack, unbend, unhand), ‏أطلق (cast, cast off, divorce, draw, eject, emanate, enlarge, erupt, evolve, fire, generalize, give off, liberate, open, project, relax, release, shoot, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock, utter), ‏أطلق صراحه, ‏طليق (at large, floating, free, freed, freed man, off hand), ‏عاش حياة ماجنة, ‏بدون تنظيم (haphazard), ‏حر (at large, disengaged, free, freeman, heat, independent, liberated, open, voluntary), ‏فك (break up, chap, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disjoint, dismantle, dissociate, disunite, free, jaw, jaws, jowl, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, unfix, untangle, untie, untying, unwind), ‏حل (acquit, become, clear up, crack, detach, disband, disengage, disentangle, disintegrate, dismissal, dispensation, dissolve, exonerate, fix, free, hash, ravel out, releasing, resolution, resolve, settle, settlement, settling, solution, solve, solvent, unbend, unclasp, uncoil, undo, undoing, unfasten, unfastening, unhook, untangle, untie, untwine, untying, unwind), ‏لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flabby, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, lax, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), ‏هلهل (loosen), ‏متمتع بحرية, ‏مفكوك (freed, unfastened), ‏فضفاض (baggy, flowing, large, looseness, wide), ‏على نحو طليق. (various references)

Basque

galdu (lose, lose to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неморален (blackguardly, immoral, light, wrong), давам свобода на, освобождавам (discharge, disencumber, disengage, dispense, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, extricate, free, give off, let loose, liberate, make free, manumit, redeem, release, remit, rescue, set free, turn off, unbar, unbind, unburden, uncork, unfasten, unhand, unloose, unpen, unshackle, vacate), отвързвам (detach, trip, uncouple, unfasten, untie), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), опрощавам (absolve, condone, forgive, pardon, release, remit), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), несвързан (confused, delirious, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjointed, incoherent, inconsequent, irrelative, rambling, rhapsodic, scrappy, unconnected, unrelated), неточен (improper, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact, lax, unfaithful, untrue, wide, wrong), широко (broadly, wide, widely), ненатоварен (empty, unstressed), хлабав (lax, slack), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), надавам (raise, send forth, set up), на свобода (outside), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), пускам стрела, празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty), изстрелвам (project, set off, shoot, shoot away, shoot off, throw, touch off, volley, wing), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, denounce, disclose, divulge, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, spill, stick out, throw out, utter), неопределен (ambiguous, amorphous, formless, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infinitive, neutral, nondescript, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unidentified, vague), рехав (feathery, lax, loose-textured, straggling), увиснал (floppy, limp, pendulous), свободно състояние (wild), свободно (clear, dismiss, fluently, free, freely, loosely, naturally, stand at ease, trippingly, vacantly, without restraint), свободна проява, свободен изход, свободен избор, свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), свобода (ease, freedom, glibness, independence, liberty, margin, play, unconstraint), широк (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flaring, flyaway, full, large, neglige, spacious, sweeping, untight, vast, voluminous, wide), ронлив (cracky, flaky, friable, light, powdery, pulverulent, short), стрелям (discharge, fire, kill, pop, pot, shoot), разхлабен (slack, unstrung, unstuck), разклатен (dicky, doddered, shaky, wonky), развързвам (cast off, disengage, loosen, solve, unbend, unbind, uncord, undo, unfasten, unknot, unlash, unleash, unstring, untether, untie), разпускам (disband, dismiss, dissolve, loosen, unbelt, unbraid, ungird), разпуснатост (dissipation, incontinence, laxity, licence, license, profligacy), разпуснат (dissolute, fast, free, gay, incontinent, lax, profligate, raffish, rakish, self-abandoned, ungovernable, unregenerated, unsteady, wanton), халтаво, халтав (lax, slack), рохкав (light, spongy). (various references)

Chinese 

鬆開 , 鬆 , 松 (pine), 宽松 (Baggy, flyaway), 娑 . (various references)

Czech

vratký (groggy, halting, insecure, rickety, specious, top heavy, unstable, unsteady), volný (clear, comfortable, for hire, free, lax, liberal, open, slack, spare, svelte, unattached, unoccupied, unrestrained, vacant), viklající se (looker), velký (big, considerable, exquisite, grand, grave, great, gross, hearty, heavy, high, intense, large, long, man-sized, spacious, tall, wide), uvolnit (disembody, disengage, dislodge, free, let loose, relax, release, undo, unfix, unfreeze, unpin, unscrew, unstop, unstrap, untie, vacate, weaken), uvolnìný (disengaged, laid back, lax, relaxed, released, unbuttoned, unstrung), rozvázat (loosen, unbind, uncord, undo, unfasten, unfreeze, unstring, untie, untuck), prostopášný (debauched, dissolute, libidinous, licentious, profligate, rakish, wanton), prodejný (corrupt, marketable, purchasable, salable, saleable, venal, vendible), odpoutat, nebalený, kyprý (fluffy, light, plump, voluptuous). (various references)

Danish

løs. (various references)

Dutch

rul (coarse, rough, sandy), mul (powdery, sandy). (various references)

Esperanto

laksa, nefiksita, malkompakta (sandy), disiĝema (sandy). (various references)

Farsi 

سبکبارکردن (Lighten, Unburden), بی بندوبار (Profligate, Unrestrained), بی ربط (Desultory, Disjointed, Impertinent, Incoherent, Irrelevant, Rigmarole), بی قاعده (Desultory, Informal), بی پایه (Unfounded, Unstable), شل (Baggy, Knockkneed, Lax, Limp, Ramshackle, Slack), شل وسست شدن , رهاکردن (Abandon, Bolt, Disentangle, Dispossess, Drop, Extricate, Lax, Leave, Let, Liberate, Release, Surrender, Unbend, Uncork, Uncouple, Unfasten, Unfix, Unfold, Unhand, Unhook, Unleash, Unloose, Unsling), برطرف کردن (Acquit, Dispel, Eliminate, Rectify, Remove, Surmount), ازقیدمسلولیت ازادساختن , پرداختن (Defray, Disburse, Pay, Pony), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), حل کردن (Dissolve, Solve, Unravel, Untangle, Untie, Workout), ول (Baggy, Irresoluble, Licentious), گشاد (Broad, Slack, Spacious, Wide), لوس وننر, لق (Jiggly, Rickety, Unsteady, Wobbly), نرم وازادشدن , هرزه (Bawdy, Dissolute, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rake, Rakish, Reprobate, Ribald, Salacious, Sordid), منتفی کردن , ازاد (Exempt, Free, Gratis, Immune, Open, Patent, Unattached, Unrestrained). (various references)

Finnish

löysä, löyhä (lax irregular, slack), irtonainen (free, limber, separate, slack, unfastened), harva (coarse, few, not dense, sparse, thin), hatara (flimsy, poorly constructed, ramshackle, unsubstantial, vague), hienolajittelematon (in bulk, unsorted), irrallaan, irrallinen (detached, disconnected, irregular, isolated, separate), irstas (dissolute, licentious), höllä, irti (atrip, aweigh), valtoin (free), kevytkenkäinen (fast, frivolous, wanton), kevytmielinen (fast, frivolous, wanton), kuohkea (light, mellow), möyheä (fluffy, porous), väljä (loose-fitting, wide), irtain. (various references)

French

libre, en vrac. (various references)

German

lose (free, lax, loosely, mischievous, slack, unbridled, unmounted), los (aweigh, come on, destiny, fate, fortune, get going, go on, going on, happening, lot, luck, misfortune, off, portion, raffle ticket, ticket), locker (cool, fast, fluffily, fluffy, frothy, lax, laxly, light, limber, loosely, loose-packed, open, relaxed, relaxedly, slack, spongy, unconstrained, unformal, ungirt). (various references)

Greek 

χύμα (unbottled, unpacked). (various references)

Hebrew 

מותר (abundance, allowed, lawful, licit, pemitted, permissible, remainder, remnant, superfluity, superiority, surplus), מפורד (disparate, dispersed, disunited, scattered), מדולדל (flabby, hanging, pending), מדובלל (parse, thin), מרופה (flaccid, relaxed, slack, weakened), להתיר (disengage, release, undo, unfasten, unharness, untie, unwind), לא מדויק (inaccurate, inexact), לא קשור, חופשי (ad. lib., at large, facile, free, unstuck), רפוי (cure, flabby, healing, indemnity, limp, limping, medication, relaxed, slack, therapy), רפוף (loosening, unstable, weak), רפה (feeble, flabby, flaccid, languid, lax, limp, limping, slack, soft, weak). (various references)

Hungarian

laza (accommodating, easy, flimsy, flipperty-flopperty, floppy, incompact, lax, open, running, slack, sleazy, sloppy). (various references)

Indonesian

lepas (disconnected, missing), melepas (dismiss, untie), kendor (slack, weak), goyah (unsteady), curai (apart, clear, detached, evident, real), boros (extravagant, improvident, lavish, open-handed, prodigal, wasteful), bebas (free). (various references)

Italian

libertà (freedom, liberty), largo (broad, deep, extensive, large, largo, loose-fitting, ready, wide), lasciare (abandon, allow, desertion, evacuate, forsake, keep, leave, leave behind, leaving, let, lets, quit, release, relinquish, resign, slack, to assume), lasco (slack), lento (dull, slack, slow, sluggish, tardy), liberare (clear, deliver, disengage, ease, enfranchise, free, get rid, liberate, release, rescue, rid, unbind, vacate), libero sfogo, licenzioso (debauched, dissipated, dissolute, frolicsome, indecent, lawless, licentious, obscene, profligate, raffish, ribald, riotous, rollicking, unchecked, undisciplined, unrestrained, wanton, wild), libero (available, clear, disengaged, empty, free, leisured, open, spare, unattached, unchecked, unconstrained, unrestricted, vacant), poco stretto (fluffily, limber, loosely, unformal, ungirt), vago (dim, dreamy, faint, hazy, indefinite, nebulous, remote, undefined, undesignated, undetermined, vague), rilassato (lax, relaxed, slackens, unwinds), ampio (ample, broad, full, large, roomy, spacious, sweeping, vast, wide), sciogliere (be dissolved, break up, crack, deatch, detach, disband, dissolve, loosen, melt, release, render, resolve, set free, shake out, solve, thaw, unbend, unbind, unchain, undo, unfix, untie), sciolto (closed, common, dissolved, easy, footloose, free, glib, melted, nimble, unlinked, untied), slacciare (loosen, unbuckle, undo, unfasten, unlace), slegare (loosen, unbind, unfasten, untie), slegato, in miscellanea (in bulk, unsorted), floscio (flabby, floppily, floppy, lethargic, limp, slack). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

緩い (lenient, slow), 散漫 (desultory, diffuse, distracted, half-hearted, vague). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ずるずる (inconclusive but unwanted situation, sound or act of dragging, trailingly), ルーズ , しまりのない (lax, slack), さんまん (desultory, diffuse, distracted, half-hearted, vague), ふしだら (fast, messy, slovenly, untidy), ばさばさ (be dry, rustle), ばらばら (disconnected, disperse, in drops, in pieces, rustling, scattered), ゆるい (lenient, slow), みだら (bawdy, improper), だぶだぶ (baggy), だらしない (slovenly). (various references)

Korean 

풀리는 (Looser, Loosest). (various references)

Manx

skeaylt (disbanded, disconnected, dispelled, floating, loose-fitting, loose-jointed, scattered, slackened, spreading, sprinkled, sprung, unfurled), neuhickyr (apocryphal, chancy, debatable, fluky, indefinite, infirm, insecure, precarious, uncertain), my reir, lhiggey (act, act pretend, allow, broach, delay, discharge, fire, firing, go off, heave, ignore, let, let down, let off, letting, level, permission, permit, pierce, remission, shoot, shoot up, shooting, slip, suffer, water pipe), lag (ill, slack, weak), gyn kiangley (anchorless, unattached, unconnected, unfettered), feayslit (absolved, emancipated, freed, loosened, redeemed, solved, unbound, uncoupled, undone), feayshlit (lax), feasley (cast loose, liberation, work out, work out as problem), ceau (aim, carry, consume, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, last, pass, pelt, rain, rake, run out, shoot, shower; launch, shy; weather, spend, throw, wear), anshickyr (insecure, wavering). (various references)

Mohawk

kanerahta'kerha (loose-leaf tea). (various references)

Norwegian

løs, vid (extensive, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Papago

hashda (loose-woven basket). (various references)

Pig Latin

ooselay.(various references)

Portuguese

frouxo (bleak, flaccid, floppy, free-for-all, incompact, languid, lanky, lax). (various references)

Romanian

lãsa sã scape, lãsa liber (loosen, throw off), larg (ample, broad, broadly, comprehensive, extensive, full, large, mighty, open-mindedly, roomy, space, spacious, spaciousness, vast, wide), liber (at a loose end, at large, at leisure, autonomous, available, bast, bondless, clear, disengaged, easily, empty, fetterless, free, go-as-you-please, gracious, gratis, informal, leisured, loosely, naked, odd, off, off duty, open, smooth, spontaneous, unchecked, uncombined, unconstrained, unengaged, unhampered, unhindered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void), libera (disengage, liberate), desface (cleave, disassemble, disconnect, disentangle, dismantle, dissolve, free, knock down, loosen, open, outstretch, pick up, pry, sever, sprawl, spread, unbind, uncouple, undo, unfold, unfurl, unlace, unloose, unravel, unrig, untie), fãrâmicios (breakable, crumbling, crumbly, fragile, frail), expresie (articulation, brow, cast, expression, formulary, locution, mien, phrase, sneer, term), dezlegat (free, unloosen, untied), dezlega (absolve, disentangle, emancipate, free, loosen, separate, sever, solve, unbind, uncord, undo, unfasten, unloose, unravel, untie), dezlãnţuit, inexact (improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, out of square, wrong), despleti (loosen, undo, unplait, untwine), afânat (light, mellow), desfãcut (detached, disconnected, free, loosely, open, outspread, undone), depravat (debauchee, depraved, graceless, obliquitous, profligate, vicious), deşucheat (dissolute, disuse, gay, libertin, upturning), deşirat (clever, lank, lean, thin, unwound), cu greşeli (faulty), care atârnã (floppy), destrãbãlat (debauched, debauchee, dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, lickerish, liquorish, profligate, rake, reinless, reprobate, unruly), mãrunt (chopping, incidental, light, mincing, paltry, peddling, petty, piffling, small, tiny, trifling), revãrsat, pune în libertate (discharge, loosen, release, set at liberty, set free), neprecis (doubtful, dusty, lax, neutral), neglijent (careless, casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, untidy, unwary), nedesluşit (dull, indefinite, indistinct, indistinctly, obscure), neciteţ (crabbed, illegible, illegibly, indecipherable), haotic (chaotic, chaotically), manifestare (act, deed, emergence, exercise, exhibition, manifestation, occurrence, piece, Sally, show), imoral (corrupt, gay, immoral, impure, lecherous, licentious, nasty, outrageous, scrofulous, sinful, wicked), slãbit (effete, flabby, helpless, low, queer, weakened), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), stângaci (artless, awkward, awkwardly, bearish, clumsy, gawky, hulking, left handed, left-handed man, lubber, lubberly, lumpish, maladroit, numb hand, splay, uncouth, uncouthly, ungainly, unskilful, unskilfully, unwieldy), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, shadowy, sketchy, slight, vague, washy), stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated), scãpa (acquit, break free, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, dodge, drop, escape, fail, filter, fly off, get free, get out of, jettison, leak, let slip, loosen, Miss, obviate, omit, pass up, purge, put back, release, relieve, rescue, rid, save, slip), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide). (various references)

Russian 

сыпучий, свободный (at liberty, clear, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, free-hand, immune, leisurely, open, quit, roomy, spare, unbound, unhampered, uninhibited, unoccupied, unstuck, vacant), свободно (easily, freely, liberally, loosely, unreservedly), широкий (broad, catholic, ever-growing, far reaching, flyaway, general, large, slip on, sweeping, wide), выход (egress, egression, emergence, escape, escapement, exit, issuance, issue, orifice, out, outcome, outing, outlet, recourse, runout, safety valve, secession, signoff, sign-off, turn out, walkout, way out, way-out, yield), освобождать свободный, ненатянутый, небрежный (careless, casual, devil-may-care, harum scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inexact, lax, loose translation, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, ragged, remiss, scratchy, slipshod, sloppy, unheeding, unkempt), неплотный (incompact, lax, untight), просторный (airy, ample, capacious, commodious, rangy, roomy, spacious, wide). (various references)

Scottish

lasaich (relax), las (get into a passion, kindle, light, set fire to), tuasgail, tualaig, fuasgail (free, liberate, untie). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

labavo (loosely), labav (languorous, lax, limp, remiss, slack, unfixed, untight), slobodno (free, freely, liberally, loosely, openly), sloboda (freedom, leeway, liberty, licence, license, privilege, right), rastresit, raskalašan (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, licentious, rakish, rascally, riotous, swinging), mlitav (flabby, lackadaisical, languorous, limp, listless, remiss), klimav (flimsy, niddle-noddle, rickety, rocky, shaky, wobbly, wonky), širok (broad, extensive, full, spacious, spreading, wide). (various references)

Spanish

suelto (change, detached, easy, flyaway, free, item, odd, paragraph, separate, silver, single), flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky), a granel (by the score, in abundance, in bulk, volume). (various references)

Swedish

loss (unstuck), lösa (cash, disengage, do, pay, resolve, settle, solve, unchain, undo, unloose, unloosen, work out), lös (cranky, detachable, floating, lax, movable, moveable, pulpy, separate, short). (various references)

Thai

แยกออกได้ (loose-leaf), ที่มีข้อต่อหลวม (loose-jointed), มีแขนขาอ่อน (loose-limbed). (various references)

Turkish

gevşek olarak, açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked), ateş etmek (bear on, bear upon, discharge, gun, let fly, let fly at smb., loose off, plug, pop, shoot, shoot off, take a pop at), ateşlemek (discharge, fire, ignite, let fly, let off, loose off, pop, set off, spark, touch off), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), bağlanmamış, üstünkörü (casual, casually, cursory, glib, perfunctory, scratchy, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, trifling), gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck), yarım yamalak (after a fashion, half-way, incompletely, perfunctory, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly), gevşemiş (languishing, relaxed, unfastened, unstuck), hafif (airy, blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, dulcet, easy of digestion, feeble, feint, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, mild, piano, slight, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, wishy washy), kabaca (clownishly, coarsely, disobligingly, foul, impolitely, in bold outline, rough, roughly, rudely, shortly, sketchy, vulgarly), oynak (coquettish, flirtatious, frisky, frolicsome, ludic, mobile, playful, skittish, unstable), salıvermek (affranchise, disengage, dismiss, extricate, free, leave off, let go, let go one's hold of, let loose, let out, release, release one's hold, set free, set loose, slip, unhand), serbest (at large, at liberty, cavalier, disengaged, easy, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, freehearted, freewheeling, go-as-you-please, in the clear, independent, latitudinarian, leisure, liberal, open, permissive, quit, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered, unengaged, unfettered, unhampered, unrestrained, unrestricted, unshackled, untrammelled), serbest bırakmak (affranchise, deblock, decontrol, deliver, discharge, disentangle, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, give a horse the reins, give smb. his head, let go, let go one's hold of, let loose, let off, liberate, manumit, release, relinquish, set at large, set at liberty, set free, slip, unbind, unchain, unfreeze, unhitch, unloose, unrein, unshackle), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide). (various references)

Turkmen 

яumюak (crumbly, soft). (various references)

Ukrainian

виявлення (detection, discovery, eduction, outcrop, sighting, signification, spotting), просторо (amply), звільняти (absolve, acquit, affranchise, avoid, bag, cashier, clear, defecate, disband, disencumber, disengage, dismiss, ease, eject, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, exonerate, free, let out, manumit, purify, release, remit, rescue, rid, set free, supersede, unfetter, unshackle, untie, vacate), непорядний (indecent, non-conventional, reprehensible), незв'язаний (disconnected, removed, untied), незв'язано, нетугий, просторий (acred, ample, broad, capacious, commodious, expansive, extensive, far flung, omnibus, rangy, space, spacious, wide), випускати (deliver, discharge, emit, give out, issue, omit, outlet, produce, set free, unclasp, vent), розпускати (break up, disband, disembody, disincorporate, dissolve, unbridle, unfurl), відв'язувати (detach), вільний (broad, devoid, disengaged, disposable, emancipated, exempt, fetterless, for hire, free, leisurely, licentious, odd, off, open, out, quit, unbound), вільний вихід, вільно (at ease, broad, easily, easy, fluently, free, freely, loosely, naturally), розпливчастий (blurred, deliquescent, flabby, indistinct, nebulous), розпливчасто (indefinably), нетуго (loosely). (various references)

Vietnamese 

long ra, lòng thòng rộng lùng thùng, lung lay (niddle-noddle, oscillatory, tottering, tottery), lỏng (fluid, incompact, loosely, watery), ăn không ngồi rồi (idle, idleness, idlesse), ẩu (random, rough-and-tumble, undiscriminating), buông lỏng, chùng, dịch (epidemic, epidemical), dễ cày, không căng, không chính xác; không chặt chẽ, không chặt, không chặt chẽ, không khít, không rõ ràng (dark, darkly, ill-defined, indefinite, indescribable, indistinct, unprecise, woolly), sự tuôn ra (effusion, flood, fulmination), tháo ra (unfixed), thoát ra ăn nói ba hoa, tính tình (cast, habitude, mood, temper), mềm (cushiony, ductile, flabby, flaccid, limber, limp, mushy, soft, supple, supply, yielding), mất trí (chump, distracted, distraught, insane, nut, nutty), nói năng bừa bãi mắc bệnh loạn óc, ngớ ngẩn thả lỏng, phóng túng (cavalier, licentious, wild), rời ra (detached), sự buông lỏng, sự trút, không nghiêm. (various references)

Welsh

llaes (long), llac (lax, slack), rhydd (free, liberal), penrhydd (unbridled), mysgu (undo), gollwng (absolve, broach, discharge, dismiss, drop, leak, let go). (various references)

dissoluta, dissolutae, dissolutas, dissolutis, dissolutum, dissolutus, expediat, expedit, expediti, expeditorum, expeditos, expediunt, fluxum, fluxus, laxa, laxate, laxati, laxe, laxus, tophus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "loose": loosed, loosely, loosen, loosened, loosener, looseners, looseness, loosenesses, loosening, loosens, looser, looses, loosest, loosestrife, loosestrifes. (additional references)

Words ending with "loose": footloose, unloose. (additional references)

Words containing "loose": unloosed, unloosen, unloosened, unloosening, unloosens, unlooses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Loose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bloose, flooze, foose, gloose, joose, lesoe, lhose, loaze, lodose, looce, looes, Looey, looge, looie, looke, Lookee, looksee, loone, loope, loore, loosa, loosh, loosy, loote, looz, Looza, looze, loozy, lopsi, loros, Losec, loshe, losie, loso, losse, louce, loues, lousey, loushe, lowos, lowse, loze, lozi, Lozle, Lugossi, luos, lusa, luso, luze, luzem, olos, olose, oose, osoe, Ploose, ulose, woose. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oleos.

-1 letter: loos, lose, oleo, oles, sloe, sole, solo.

-2 letters: els, loo, oes, ole, ose, sel, sol.

-3 letters: el, es, lo, oe, os, so.

+1 letter: locoes, looeys, looies, loosed, loosen, looser, looses, oboles, oodles, osmole, soloed.

+2 letters: aerosol, befools, boleros, boodles, coeloms, colones, console, coolers, coolest, coolies, creosol, dewools, doodles, doolees, doolies, floosie, foliose, footles, foozles, globose, goloshe, holloes, loobies, lookers, looneys, loonies, loopers, loosely, loosens, loosest, looters, lotoses, mooleys, noodles, ocelots, ologies, oolites, orioles, osmoles, ostiole, outsole, pomelos, poodles, regosol, relooks, retools, roseola, shooled, snooled, snoozle, spooled, stooled, stoolie, toledos, toolers, tootles, unloose, woolens, woolers, woolies.