loosely

[US]/'lu:sli/
[UK]/ˈluslɪ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. not tightly; in a relaxed manner; without strictness.

Phrases & Collocations

loosely tied

loosely based

loosely connected

loosely defined

loosely organized

loosely interpreted

Example Sentences

a very loosely structured organization

A cofactor bound loosely to the apoenzyme and readily separable from it is a coenzyme.

a loosely organized confederacy of allies

an offensive by seven loosely allied guerrilla groups

He had lost weight and the suit hung loosely on him.

the scarves were knotted loosely around their throats.

He wore plimsolls, loosely tied with bits of string.

His shaggy grey hair fell loosely across his brow.

I worked loosely with the oils, allowing colours to bleed into one another.

Trama The inner tissue of the gills in basidiomycete fungi that is made up of loosely packed hyphae.

A nineteenth-century adventure yarn , loosely derived from a poem by Lord Byron , Le Corsaire tells of harems , abductions , pirates , pashas , slave girls , treachery , true love and a shipwreck.

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