loosely

/ˈluːsli/

adv 4

Collocations

ADJ.

afroasiatic, all, based, based, related, semitic, together, unusual

VERB + LOOSELY

dangled, fall, fell-awen, hanging, held, name, parts, roof

LOOSELY + NOUN

greetings, neck, ourselves, sov, tennis, tevye

PREP.

about, on

ADV.

only, then

Definitions

adv

In a loose manner.

Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other.

It was an April Fool hoax, of course. 31200 had been rigged up with a single lightweight wooden [name] plate (loosely held on by Blu Tack).

Not tightly.

Insert all the bolts loosely, then tighten them.

Approximately.

It's red, to use the term loosely, sort of brown and sort of orange, let's call it reddish.

a comic loosely based on an Old Norse epic

Used to indicate an imprecise use of words; short for loosely speaking

A whale is, loosely, maybe very loosely, a fish.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adverb — in a relaxed manner

slackly

adverb — without regard to specific details or exceptions

broadly
generally

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other.

Wiktionary

It was an April Fool hoax, of course. 31200 had been rigged up with a single lightweight wooden [name] plate (loosely held on by Blu Tack).

Wiktionary

Insert all the bolts loosely, then tighten them.

Wiktionary

Mary removed the band from her ponytail and allowed her hair to fall loosely about her neck.

Tatoeba · #3028954

Some of the seams of the dress were held together only loosely by basting stitches, pending the final fitting.

Tatoeba · #3028955

As people age, we find it disconcerting to realize that increasing amounts of our skin and more of our body parts are hanging loosely about ourselves.

Tatoeba · #3028956

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