Usually means: Not tightly; with some freedom.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. loosely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. loosely: Merriam-Webster
  3. loosely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. loosely: Collins English Dictionary
  5. loosely: Vocabulary.com
  6. Loosely, loosely: Wordnik
  7. loosely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. loosely: Wiktionary
  9. Loosely, loosely: Dictionary.com
  10. loosely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Loosely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. loosely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. loosely: Rhymezone
  14. Loosely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. loosely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. loosely: FreeDictionary.org
  17. loosely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. loosely: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loosely: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loosely: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. loosely: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. loosely: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loosely: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In a loose manner.
adverb:  Not tightly.
adverb:  Approximately.
adverb:  Used to indicate an imprecise use of words; short for loosely speaking

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