No money, no job, no friends. He was truly at loose ends.
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Loose
//luːs//
Synonyms for "loose" (648 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (130)
freeloosenbaggyfireinformallaxlet golightpromiscuousseparateuncontrolledunleashabandonedabateabsonantadriftaffableafloatafoot and lightheartedaid
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aimlessaleatoricaleatoryalleviateamorphousapproximateapproximativeat largeat libertyaweighbaggingballooningbarbaricbarbarousbatebeat upbeat-upbedraggledblobbyblowzyblurredblurrybohemianbreak loosebroadby the waycapriciouscarelesscast offcast-offcasualchamberingchancechancychaoticchintzyclearclear the waycoarseconfusedcontradictorycontrary to reasoncool offcordialcorruptculpably negligentdanglingdebaucheddegagedeliverderelictdesultorydetachdetacheddeviativediffusedigressivedilapidateddischargedisconnecteddiscontinuousdiscursivedisengagedisengageddisenthralldisjoindisjointeddisordereddisorganizeddispersedisperseddissolutedoffdown at the heeldrabbletaileddraggleddraggletaileddroopingdroopyeaseease offease upeasy
Adjective(21 words)
diffuselashpromiscuousbadbaggybefuddledbesottedbibulousblind drunkblottoboskybuzzedcarefreechillcockeyedcornycrapulouscutdevil-may-caredifferent
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Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (194)
Adjective(30 words)
easygoingemancipateemancipatedemitepisodicerroneousescapeescapedexcursiveexpediteexplainextravagantfacilitatefallaciousfamiliarfastfaultyfineflabbyflaccid
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flappingflawedfledfleeflimsyfloatingfloppyflowingflownflyawayfoggyfolksyfootloosefootloose and fancy-freefree and easyfree as airfreebornfreedfrowzyfrumpishfrumpyfugitivefuzzygeneralgive out withgo gogo-as-you-pleasego-gograciousgreasegrease the waysgrease the wheelsgrubbyhangingharshhastenhaymishhazyhelphelp alonghit-or-misshomelyhomeyill-definedillogicalimmoderateimmodestimmoralimpotentimpreciseimproperimpurein disarrayin disorderin ragsin the clearinaccurateinadvertentinattentiveinauthenticinchoateincoherentinconclusiveincongruousinconsequentinconsequentialinconsistentinconstantincontinentincorrectindecisiveindecorousindefinableindefiniteindeterminableindeterminateindifferentindiscreetindistinctindulgentinexactinfelicitousintemperateinvalidirrationalirregularirrepressibleirresponsiblelaissez fairelaissez-fairelanguorouslenientlessenlet downlet flylet uplewdliberalliberateliberatedlibertinelibertylicenselicentiouslimploose fittingloose limbedloose-moraledloplop-earedloppylubricatelumpenmake clearmake way formanumitmaunderingmeagremessymitigatemovablemussynaturalneglectfulneglectingnegligentnoddingnonadhesivenoninterferingnonrestrictivenonscientific
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (324)
nonspecificnot followingobsceneobscureof easy virtueof loose moralsoff guardoff-guardoffhandoffhandedoilon looseon the looseopen the wayopen uporderlessout ofout of controlout of handout of line
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out of plumbout of squareout of trueoverindulgentoverly permissiveoverpermissivepaphianparalogicalpave the waypermissivepervertedplainpokypolygamousprepare the wayprocrastinatingprofligateprurientquickenraggedraggedyramblingrampantrandomreasonlessrecklessredeemreinlessrelaxrelaxedreleasereleasedrelinquishremissremitremoveremove frictionricketyriotousroughrovingrubberyruinousrunrun interference forrunawaysaggingsagging in foldssaggyscampingscatterscot freescot-freescragglyseedyself-annullingself-contradictoryself-refutingsenselesssensualset freeshabbyshadowed forthshadowyshakyshapelessshiftingshoddyshootsiltysimplesimplifysit backskimpingslackslack offslack upslackenslakeslapdashslatternlyslightingslipshodsloppyslovenlyslurringsluttishsmoothsmooth the waysoap the wayssociablesoftsolecisticsordidspeedspread aboutspringsqualidstartedstochasticstreamingswagsweepingtackytake it easytake offtatteredtightunaffectedunaffixedunanchoredunassumingunattachedunauthenticunbarunbendunbindunblockunboltunboundunbraceunbridleunbridledunbuckleunbuttonuncageunceremoniousunchainunchainedunchasteuncheckeduncircumspectunclaspunclearuncloguncoerceduncommitteduncompelledunconfinedunconnectedunconsolidatedunconstipatedunconstrainedunconventionaluncurbedundefinedundestinedundeterminedundoundoneunengagedunfactualunfastenunfastenedunfetterunfetteredunfixedunforcedungagunglueungovernedungrammaticunguardedunhandcuffunhobbleuninhibiteduninvolvedunjamunkemptunlaceunlashunlatchunlockunlooseunloosenunmanacleunmasteredunmeasuredunmooredunmuzzleunmuzzledunneatunofficialunpackagedunpenunphilosophicalunpinionunplainunpreciseunreasonableunreinedunrepressedunreservedunrestrainedunrestrictiveunrigorousunrulyunscientificunsecuredunshackleunshackledunsightlyunspecificunspecifiedunstickunstrainunstrapunstringunstuckunstudiedunsubduedunsuppresseduntetheruntidyuntieuntieduntightenuntrussunwaryunwatchfulunyokevagueveiledventvoluminouswanderingwantonwaywardweakweigh anchorwell out ofwhorishwildwithout reasonwithout rhyme or reason
Adjective(53 words)
Adjective(7 words)
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2 entriesderived
86 entriesShowing 16 of 86 words.
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4 entriesform of
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4 entriesrelated to
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33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
Translations
327 translations across 54 languages.
Ancient Greek
4 entries- χαλαρός adj (not fixed tightly)
- χαλαρός adj (not fitting tightly)
- λύω verb (to let loose)
- λύω verb (to unfasten)
Arabic
1 entries- فَضْفَاض adj (not fixed tightly)
Armenian
2 entries- արձակ adj (not fixed tightly)
- արձակված adj (not fixed tightly)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- gen adj (not fitting tightly)
- şalaq adj (not fitting tightly)
Bikol Central
1 entries- mahiwas adj (not fixed tightly)
Bulgarian
4 entries- незавързан adj (not fixed tightly)
- незакрепен adj (not fixed tightly)
- неопакован adj (not packaged)
- отпуснат adj (not fitting tightly)
Catalan
4 entries- fluix adj (not fixed tightly)
- fluix adj (not compact)
- indiscret adj (indiscreet)
- promiscu adj (promiscuous)
Central Kurdish
3 entries- سووک adj (promiscuous)
- شل adj (not fixed tightly)
- شل adj (not fitting tightly)
Chinese
1 entries- 落落 adj (not fitting tightly)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 鬆 /松 adj (not fixed tightly)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 鬆動 /松动 adj (not fixed tightly)
- 鬆弛 /松弛 adj (not fixed tightly)
Czech
4 entries- sypký adj (not compact)
- uvolněný adj (relaxed)
- volný adj (not fixed tightly)
- volný adj (not fitting tightly)
Danish
4 entries- løs adj (not fixed tightly)
- løse verb (to let loose)
- løse verb (to unfasten)
- løsne verb (to make less tight)
Dutch
4 entries- los adj (not fixed tightly)
- los adj (not packaged)
- los adj (not compact)
- mul adj (not compact)
Esperanto
1 entries- loza adj (not fixed tightly)
Estonian
1 entries- lõtv adj (not fixed tightly)
Finnish
4 entries- avara adj (not fitting tightly)
- epäsiveellinen adj (promiscuous)
- huolimaton adj (indiscreet)
- irti adj (not fixed tightly)
French
4 entries- ample adj (not fitting tightly)
- débauché adj (promiscuous)
- facile adj (promiscuous)
- lousse adj (not fitting tightly)
Galician
4 entries- frouxo adj (not fixed tightly)
- solto adj (not fixed tightly)
- solto adj (not compact)
- afrouxar verb (to make less tight)
German
4 entries- ausschweifend adj (promiscuous)
- entspannt adj (relaxed)
- indiskret adj (indiscreet)
- locker adj (not fixed tightly)
Greek
4 entries- έκλυτος adj (promiscuous)
- ακόλαστος adj (promiscuous)
- απρόσεκτος adj (indiscreet)
- ασύνετος adj (indiscreet)
Hindi
4 entries- खुला adj (not packaged)
- ढीला adj (not fixed tightly)
- ढीला adj (not fitting tightly)
- खोलना verb (to unfasten)
Hungarian
4 entries- csomagolatlan adj (not packaged)
- kimérve/súlyra kapható adj (not packaged)
- laza adj (not fixed tightly)
- lédig adj (not packaged)
Icelandic
3 entries- fyrirgjöra verb (to let go)
- missa verb (to let go)
- sleppa verb (to let go)
Ingrian
3 entries- höbliä adj (not fixed tightly)
- höbliäin adj (not fixed tightly)
- höblä adj (not fixed tightly)
Irish
4 entries- scaoilte adj (not fixed tightly)
- scaoilte adj (not fitting tightly)
- scaoilte adj (not compact)
- scaoilteach adj (not fixed tightly)
Italian
4 entries- sciolto adj (not fixed tightly)
- sciolto adj (not packaged)
- sciolto adj (not compact)
- sfuso adj (not packaged)
Japanese
1 entries- 緩んだ adj (not fixed tightly)
Khiamniungan Naga
2 entries- tǖkāngkāng adj (not fixed tightly)
- tǖlāilàih adj (not fixed tightly)
Khmer
1 entries- រលុង adj (not fixed tightly)
Korean
1 entries- 헐렁하다 adj (not fixed tightly)
Latin
2 entries- laxus adj (not fitting tightly)
- solūtus adj (not fixed tightly)
Malay
1 entries- longgar adj (not fixed tightly)
Marathi
1 entries- सैल adj (not fixed tightly)
Māori
4 entries- ango adj (not fitting tightly)
- hāngengangenga adj (not fixed tightly)
- hūngorungoru adj (not fixed tightly)
- kaupe adj (not fixed tightly)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- fireh adj (not fitting tightly)
- sist adj (not fixed tightly)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- løs adj (not fixed tightly)
- løs adj (not packaged)
- løs adj (not fitting tightly)
- løs adj (not fitting tightly)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- laus adj (not fitting tightly)
Occitan
2 entries- flus adj (not fixed tightly)
- desligar verb (to let loose)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- گوشك adj (not fixed tightly)
- براقمق verb (to let loose)
- براقمق verb (to let go)
- صالمق verb (to let loose)
Persian
4 entries- سست adj (not compact)
- شل adj (not fixed tightly)
- لق adj (not fixed tightly)
- هرز adj (not fixed tightly)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- looss adj (not fixed tightly)
Polish
4 entries- luzem adj (not packaged)
- luźny adj (not fixed tightly)
- luźny adj (not fitting tightly)
- sypki adj (not compact)
Portuguese
4 entries- desembalado adj (not packaged)
- frouxo adj (not fixed tightly)
- frouxo adj (not fitting tightly)
- indiscreto adj (indiscreet)
Romanian
1 entries- dezlega verb (to unfasten)
Russian
4 entries- неосторо́жный adj (indiscreet)
- непривя́занный adj (not fixed tightly)
- неприкреплённый adj (not fixed tightly)
- несде́ржанный adj (indiscreet)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- sgaoilte adj (not fixed tightly)
- sgaoilte adj (not fitting tightly)
- sgaoilte adj (not compact)
Spanish
4 entries- aflojado adj (not fixed tightly)
- desajustado adj (not fixed tightly)
- flojo adj (not fixed tightly)
- golfo adj (promiscuous)
Swedish
4 entries- lös adj (not fixed tightly)
- lösaktig adj (promiscuous)
- promiskuös adj (promiscuous)
- lossa verb (to let loose)
Telugu
4 entries- గట్టిగా కట్టని adj (not fitting tightly)
- గట్టిగా బిగించని adj (not fixed tightly)
- వత్తిడి లేకుండా adj (relaxed)
- సరిపోని adj (not compact)
Thai
2 entries- หลวม adj (not fixed tightly)
- หลวม adj (not fitting tightly)
Turkish
2 entries- bol adj (not fitting tightly)
- gevşek adj (not fixed tightly)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вільний adj (not fitting tightly)
Vietnamese
1 entries- rộng adj (not fixed tightly)
Sample sentences
43 total sentences available.
Before saying goodbye to their neighbors, the Smiths had to tie up some loose ends inside the house.
Source: tatoeba (18669)
Check all the loose knots and fasten them tight.
Source: tatoeba (20951)
After tying up loose ends on the house, the carpenter gave the painter approval to begin work.
Source: tatoeba (24179)
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