loosely

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. In a loose manner.
    — Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other.
  2. Not tightly.
    — Insert all the bolts loosely, then tighten them.
  3. Approximately.
    — It's red, to use the term loosely, sort of brown and sort of orange, let's call it reddish.
  4. Used to indicate an imprecise use of words; short for loosely speaking
    — A whale is, loosely, maybe very loosely, a fish.

词形变化

more loosely comparative most loosely superlative

词汇关系

反义词
tightly
衍生词
loosely-typed sit loosely

词源

From Middle English lously; equivalent to loose + -ly.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary