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Definition of loose : 1. A letting go; discharge.
2. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
3. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
4. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; - with from or of.
5. Freedom from restraint.
6. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
7. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
8. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
9. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
10. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
11. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
12. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
13. To set sail.
14. To solve; to interpret.
15. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
16. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
17. Unconnected; rambling.

Synonyms:

loosen up, sluttish, vague, weak, blowsy, unwarranted, confined, bighearted, irresponsible, soft, set free, unfreeze, rid, out of work, make relaxed, sandy, slatternly, unconfined, promiscuous, shifting, short, barren, expel, scant, unlocked, subject, libertine, unaccented, openhanded, publish, tease apart, unblock, leisurely, decompress, let go of, relinquish, liberate, tighten, destitute, cozy, light-colored, capable, large-minded, exempt, easy, coarse, open, dissolute, comfortable, costless, informal, let out, give up, well-off, disengage, groundless, assailable, motiveless, untied, relieve, on the loose, unaffixed, lightsome, friable, flee, uncontrolled, dislodge, opened, devoid, giving, handsome, unclouded, bountiful, unconstipated, slow down, unofficial, fast, sex, unresolved, disreputable, slacken, clean, easygoing, undefended, broad, blowzy, complimentary, loosen, well-to-do, unlax, resign, turn, well-fixed, untie, unconnected, wakeful, well-situated, wanton, tripping, unpackaged, slack up, undo, unfounded, unbound, bounteous, liberal, undone, unwind, disembarrass, exhaust, exposed, faint, bring out, light, precise, big, gratis, unstrain, candid, unprovoked, abstemious, movable, escaped, relax, innocent, gentle, lite, freehanded, emit, lewd, regular, receptive, well-heeled, unused, unfirm, silty, let go, loose-fitting, idle, flyaway, unloose, unbend, spare, wobbly, baggy, release, undefendable, jobless, tight, baseless, prosperous, insecure, utter, random, heart-to-heart, issue, undetermined, relaxed, escape, unrestrained, intimate, at-large, low-cal, emancipate, phlegmy, unchaste, overt, absolve, unloosen, dead, put out, calorie-free, light-headed, clear, undecided, swooning, eject, lightheaded, at liberty, gratuitous, let loose, secrete, discharge, justify, whorish, tease, shake off restraint, unleash

detached, sporadic, disjointed, nonadhesive, dispersed, divergent, unconsolidated, noncontiguous, non-cohesive, nonuniform, broken, disarticulated, discontinuous

shapeless, disorganized, cluttered, lawless, inexact, insane, inchoate, confused, disarrayed, tumultuous, inconsistent, out of control, embroiled, deformed, perturbed, unruly, deranged, undisciplined, wild, messy, formless, lax, chaotic, tempestuous, disconnected, discomposed, disordered, rambunctious, incoherent, blurry, indefinite, muddled, obscure, jumbled, irregular, frantic, fuzzy, frenzied, amorphous, disorderly, anarchical, disheveled, indistinct, uneven, anarchistic, disintegrated

emancipated, disengaged, liberated

non-adherent, limp, non-coherent, unattached, unfastened, flaccid

free, slack, tolerant, nihilistic, anarchic

Usage examples:

• When he came into its streets there were those who laughed, for he was very tall and rude, and his grey hair hung loose on his shoulders, and his dress was still a hunter's. - "Parables Of A Province", Gilbert Parker Last Updated: March 13, 2009.
• One was for it to get loose and the other for somebody to work it loose. - "The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine", Ross Kay.
• Her husband ran after them but he never reached them, only now and then she let fall some of the loose clothes that covered her. - "The Strange Story Book", Mrs. Andrew Lang.