loosely
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English lously; equivalent to loose + -ly.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
loosely (comparative more loosely, superlative most loosely)
- In a loose manner.
- 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
- 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.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus: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
- 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian[1]:
- It is loosely adapted by John Hodge from Irvine Welsh’s novel Porno which imagined them coming together again 10 years on; this of course is 20.
- Used to indicate an imprecise use of words; short for loosely speaking
- A whale is, loosely, maybe very loosely, a fish.
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of "not tightly"): tightly
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
in a loose manner
not tightly
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approximately — see approximately
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