loosely
/ˈluːsli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Not tightly.
adv
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "Insert all the bolts loosely, then tighten them."
- "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"
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lously
Inflected Forms
more loosely (comparative)
most loosely (superlative)