loose

/luːs/

意味: 解き放つ、ゆるめる

例文: Fluffin loosed sparkles into the wind.
　　  フラッフィンが風にラメを解き放った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: loose clothing(ゆったりした服), loose tooth(ぐらぐらする歯), loose change(小銭)

定義: しっかり固定されていない、または自由に動くことができる状態を指します。例えば、服が体にぴったりしていない場合や、歯がぐらぐらしている場合に使います。また、規則や制約が少ないことを表すこともあります。

looseは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: grant freedom to; free from confinement
Verb: turn loose or free from restraint
Verb: make loose or looser
Verb: become loose or looser or less tight
Adjective: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
Adjective: (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
Adjective: not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
Adjective: not officially recognized or controlled
Adjective: not literal
Adjective: emptying easily or excessively
Adjective: not affixed
Adjective: not tense or taut
Adjective: (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
Adjective: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
Adjective: not carefully arranged in a package
Adjective: having escaped, especially from confinement
Adjective: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
Adverb: without restraint

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective, Adverb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

My shoelaces are loose and need tightening.(靴ひもが緩んでいるので締め直す。)
The screws on the chair are loose.(椅子のネジが緩んでいる。)
She wore a loose dress to the party.(彼女はパーティーにゆったりしたドレスを着ていた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: let loose mines
Verb: Loose terrible plagues upon humanity
Verb: loosen the tension on a rope
Verb: The noose loosened
Verb: the rope relaxed
Adjective: loose gravel
Adjective: a loose ball
Adjective: loose clothing
Adjective: the large shoes were very loose
Adjective: an informal agreement
Adjective: a loose organization of the local farmers
Adjective: a loose interpretation of what she had been told
Adjective: a free translation of the poem
Adjective: loose bowels
Adjective: the stamp came loose
Adjective: the old man’s skin hung loose and grey
Adjective: slack and wrinkled skin
Adjective: slack sails
Adjective: a slack rope
Adjective: an open texture
Adjective: a loose weave
Adjective: idle talk
Adjective: a loose tongue
Adjective: a box of loose nails
Adjective: a convict still at large
Adjective: searching for two escaped prisoners
Adjective: dogs loose on the streets
Adjective: criminals on the loose in the neighborhood
Adjective: her easy virtue
Adjective: he was told to avoid loose (or light) women
Adjective: wanton behavior
Adverb: cows in India are running loose

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): at large, easy, escaped, free, idle, informal, lax, let loose, liberal, liberate, light, loose, loosen, on the loose, open, promiscuous, relax, release, slack, sluttish, unaffixed, unleash, unloose, unloosen, wanton

Antonyms(反意語): affixed, compact, confine, stiffen, tight

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, let go of, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, attenuate, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, brighten, bring, bring out, brutalize, bubble, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, collapse, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, die down, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discharge, discolor, disengage, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fade, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mechanize, melt, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, personalize, piggyback, pine away, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, pop, port, professionalize, proof, prostrate, purify, put, radicalize, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relax, remodel, restore, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shorten, simplify, slacken, slenderize, slow, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, subside, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, toggle, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, turn back, uglify, unclasp, unclutter, unhand, uniformize, unite, unleash, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, wilt, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bail, bail out, parole, relax, run, slack, slacken, unchain, unscrew, unspell

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: free, freeing, laxness, liberation, liberator, liberty, looseness, loosening, promiscuity, promiscuousness, relaxation, release, slack, slackness, sluttishness, wanton, wantonness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: