Definisi 'loose'
English to English
adjective
1 not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
Example:
• loose gravel
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2 not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
Example:
• loose clothing
• the large shoes were very loose
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3 not affixed
Example:
• the stamp came loose
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4 Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
source: webster1913
adjective satellite
5 (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
Example:
• a loose ball
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6 not officially recognized or controlled
Example:
• an informal agreement
• a loose organization of the local farmers
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7 not literal
Example:
• a loose interpretation of what she had been told
• a free translation of the poem
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8 emptying easily or excessively
Example:
• loose bowels
source: wordnet30
9 not tense or taut
Example:
• the old man's skin hung loose and grey
• slack and wrinkled skin
• slack sails
• a slack rope
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10 (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
Example:
• an open texture
• a loose weave
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11 lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
Example:
• idle talk
• a loose tongue
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12 not carefully arranged in a package
Example:
• a box of loose nails
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13 having escaped, especially from confinement
Example:
• a convict still at large
• searching for two escaped prisoners
• dogs loose on the streets
• criminals on the loose in the neighborhood
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14 casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
Example:
• her easy virtue
• he was told to avoid loose (or light) women
• wanton behavior
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adverb
15 without restraint
Example:
• cows in India are running loose
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noun
16 Freedom from restraint.
source: webster1913
verb
17 grant freedom to; free from confinement
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18 turn loose or free from restraint
Example:
• let loose mines
• Loose terrible plagues upon humanity
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19 make loose or looser
Example:
• loosen the tension on a rope
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20 become loose or looser or less tight
Example:
• The noose loosened
• the rope relaxed
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21 To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
source: webster1913
22 To set sail.
source: webster1913
More Word(s)
looseness, slack, play, stiffen, tight, confine, detain, diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, laxation, affixed, freeing, liberation, release, free, free people, compact, lax, loosen, relax, athletics, sport, weaken, alter, change, modify, let go, unbend, remit, slacken, unspell, unchaste, light, shifting, unfirm, silty, regular, unofficial,

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