Synonyms of the word

loose

• v. (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
• v. (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
• v. (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
• v. (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
• v. (archery) to shoot (an arrow).
• v. (obsolete) To set sail.
• v. (obsolete) To solve; to interpret.
• adj. Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
• adj. Not held or packaged together.
• adj. Not under control.
• adj. Not fitting closely.
• adj. Not compact.
• adj. Relaxed.
• adj. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
• adj. Indiscreet.
• adj. (dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
• adj. (dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
• n. (archery) The release of an arrow.
• n. (obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
• n. (rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
• n. Freedom from restraint.
• n. A letting go; discharge.
• interj. (archery) begin shooting; release your arrows.
• v. Misspelling of lose.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

baggy

• adj. Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
• adj. Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia…
• n. A small plastic bag, as for sandwiches.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

coarse

• adj. Composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close…
• adj. Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy;.

easy

• adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
• adj. Requiring little skill or effort.
• adj. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
• adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
• adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
• adj. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
• adv. In a relaxed or casual manner.
• adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
• adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
• adv. Not difficult, not hard.
• n. Something that is easy.
• v. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar.

escaped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of escape.
• adj. Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

flyaway

• adj. Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
• adj. Flighty; frivolous.
• adj. (of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
• n. A stray hair of this kind.
• n. A flyaway person or thing.

free

• adj. (social) Unconstrained.
• adj. Obtainable without any payment.
• adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
• adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
• adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
• adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
• adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted…
• adj. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
• adj. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
• adv. Without needing to pay.
• adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
• v. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or…
• n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
• n. free transfer.
• n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts…

friable

• adj. Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
• adj. (of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
• adj. (of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
• adj. (mathematics, of a number) smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.

harsh

• adj. Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
• adj. Severe or cruel.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.
• v. (transitive, slang) to put a damper on (a mood).

idle

• adj. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
• adj. Not being use appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
• adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
• adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
• adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• adj. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• v. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
• v. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
• v. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

inexact

• adj. Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
• adj. Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated.
• adj. (physics, of a differential) having a path-dependent integral.

informal

• adj. Not formal or ceremonious.
• adj. Not in accord with the usual regulations.
• adj. Suited for everyday use.
• adj. (of language) Reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage.
• adj. (horticulture) Not organized; not structured or planned.

insecure

• adj. Not secure.
• adj. Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations.

irresponsible

• adj. Lacking a sense of responsibility; incapable of or not chargeable with responsibility; unable to respond…
• adj. Not responsible; not subject to responsibility; not to be held accountable, or called into question.
• n. Someone who is not responsible.

lax

• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.
• adj. lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
• adj. loose; not tight or taut.
• adj. lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
• adj. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
• adj. (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
• n. (slang) Lacrosse.

liberal

• adj. (now rare outside set phrases) Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which are considered…
• adj. Generous; willing to give unsparingly.
• adj. Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
• adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
• adj. Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
• adj. (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern…
• n. One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
• n. (US) Someone left-wing; one with a left-wing ideology.
• n. A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
• n. (Britain) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also…

liberate

• v. (transitive) To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly.
• v. (transitive, military, euphemistic) To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities,…
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

loose-fitting

• adj. baggy, not tight.

loosen

• v. To make loose.
• v. To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
• v. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

open

• adj. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
• adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
• adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
• adj. (comparable) Receptive.
• adj. (not comparable) Public.
• adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
• adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
• adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
• adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
• adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
• adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty…
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
• adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
• adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
• adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects…
• v. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
• v. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
• v. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
• v. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
• v. (intransitive) To become open.
• v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
• v. To enter upon; to begin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
• v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
• v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
• v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
• n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
• n. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
• n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
• n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

phlegmy

• adj. Charged with phlegm.

promiscuous

• adj. Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
• adj. Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
• adj. Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
• adj. (networking) The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended…

regular

• adj. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to…
• adj. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
• adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same…
• adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
• adj. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
• adj. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
• adj. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
• adj. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of…
• adj. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
• adj. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
• adj. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
• adj. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
• adj. Belonging to a monastic order or community.
• adj. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
• adj. (crystallography) isometric.
• adj. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
• adj. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular…
• adv. (archaic, Britain, dialect) Regularly, on a regular basis.
• n. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
• n. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
• n. A frequent customer, client or business partner.
• n. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
• n. Anything that is normal or standard.

relax

• v. (transitive) To calm down.
• v. (transitive) To make something loose.
• v. (intransitive) To become loose.
• v. (transitive) To make something less severe or tense.
• v. (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
• v. (transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
• v. (intransitive, of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.
• v. (transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

release

• n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked…
• n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product;…
• n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
• n. That which is released, untied or let go.
• n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
• n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
• n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be…
• n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
• v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
• v. To make available to the public.
• v. To free or liberate; to set free.
• v. To discharge.
• v. (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
• v. (law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying…
• v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
• v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity.
• v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
• v. (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

relinquish

• v. (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.
• v. (transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
• v. (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
• v. (transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

sandy

• adj. Covered with sand.
• adj. Sprinkled with sand.
• adj. Like sand, especially in texture.
• adj. Having the colour of sand.

shifting

• n. A shift or change; a shifting movement.
• v. present participle of shift.

silty

• adj. Having a noticeable amount of silt.

slack

• n. (uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
• n. (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
• n. (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
• n. (countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
• adj. Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
• adj. Weak; not holding fast.
• adj. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
• adj. Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
• adj. (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
• adv. Slackly.
• v. To slacken.
• v. (obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
• v. (followed by “off”) to procrastinate; to be lazy.
• v. (followed by “off”) to refuse to exert effort.
• v. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.

sloppy

• adj. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
• adj. Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
• adj. Imprecise or loose.

sluttish

• adj. (vulgar) Like a slut; sexually promiscuous.
• adj. (chiefly dated) Dirty or untidy; disorderly.

unaffixed

• adj. (linguistics) Without an affix.

unbound

• v. simple past tense of unbind.
• v. past participle of unbind.

unchaste

• adj. Not chaste; not continent; libidinous; lewd.

unconsolidated

• adj. Not (yet) consolidated.

uncontrolled

• adj. not controlled.

unfirm

• adj. Not firm; not strong or stable; feeble; infirm.

unleash

• v. To free from a leash, or as from a leash.
• v. to let go; to release.
• v. To precipitate; to bring about.

unloose

• v. To release from a constraint; to set free or liberate.
• v. To unfasten, untie.
• v. To disengage.

unloosen

• v. To unloose; to loosen.

unofficial

• adj. Not officially established.
• adj. Not acting with official authority.
• adj. (pharmacology) Not listed in a national pharmacopeia etc.

unpackaged

• adj. Not packaged.

wanton

• adj. (obsolete) Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
• adj. Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
• adj. (obsolete) Playful, sportive; being merry or carefree (often used figuratively).
• adj. (obsolete) Self-indulgent, fond of excess; luxurious.
• adj. Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of…
• adj. (obsolete) Extravagant, unrestrained; excessive (of speech or thought).
• n. A pampered or coddled person.
• n. An overly playful person; a trifler.
• n. A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
• n. (archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
• v. (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
• v. (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (often with away).
• v. (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.