Thesaurus
loose
Synonyms and Antonyms of loose
- secure your neckerchief with a loose knot
- the car wheels slipped on the loose gravel in the driveway
- we tend to be loose with the dress code when we aren't hosting clients at the office
- there was a brief panic when the lion got loose from its cage at the zoo
- a loose guess about the size of the crowd at the outdoor concert
certain, incontestable, indubitable, positive, sure, undeniable, unquestionable
correct, errorless, factual, right, sound, true, valid
clear-cut, decisive, definable, defined, definite
incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable
confirmed, corroborated, determined, established, substantiated, supported, validated
- the loose life that he led in the years before he settled down and found his path
bent [chiefly British], crooked, cutthroat, dishonest, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous
contaminated, spoiled, tainted
bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, miscreant, nefarious, sinful, vicious, wicked
loose
Synonyms and Antonyms of loose
- the archers loosed a great volley of arrows at the foot soldiers charging towards them
- do not loose your pent-up frustrations on the next person who happens by
- the ranchers loosed the horses from their stables and into the paddock
discharge, disenthrall (also disenthral), emancipate, enfranchise, enlarge, free, liberate, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter
- the storm loosed its full fury when it hit the coastline at high tide
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