Definition of Loose

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Definition of Loose

Loose

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.

Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.

Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.

Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.

Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.

Unconnected; rambling.

Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.

Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.

Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.

Freedom from restraint.

A letting go; discharge.

To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.

To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.

To solve; to interpret.

To set sail.

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Loose Quotations

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
George Carlin

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt Whitman

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
Elvis Presley

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Loose Translations

loose in Dutch is mul, rul
loose in German is lose, verlassen, verlassen
loose in Hungarian is megereszkedett, elszabadult, nem pontos, feslett
loose in Italian is lasco, lasciare, poco stretto, floscio
loose in Latin is laxus
loose in Portuguese is frouxo
loose in Spanish is languido, flojo, suelto

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