looser

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UK/ˈluːsə/US/ˈlusɚ/

noun

One who looses, who sets loose or frees.

“The law is too strict; it should be made looser.”

Less commonScrabble 6

Meanings

looser1

adjective
  1. comparativecomparative form of loose: more loose

    The law is too strict; it should be made looser.

    1 more example

    Her new T-shirt was just a little bit looser than the old one.

looser2

nounlooser (plural loosers)

plural loosers

  1. One who looses, who sets loose or frees.

    Loosers of topsails and courses, and men stationed at boom tricing-lines, […]

    1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Aaron Ward, Text-book of Seamanship
    1 more example

    Therefore we cannot but infer that they did not understand the promise of their Lord as uttered in a sense at variance with the established forms of language, as conveying the doctrine which the clerical binders and loosers of later ages teach.

    1844, John Wesley, The Magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church

looser3

noun
  1. misspellingMisspelling of loser.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  3. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  4. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  5. Old Norselauss
  6. Middle Englishloos
  7. Englishloose
  8. Englishlooser

From loose + -er.

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APA

looser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/looser

MLA

“looser.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/looser. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “looser,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/looser.

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