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say it: FUUT-loos
footloose is an adjective meaning "free to go or do as one pleases". It carries one recorded sense.
free to go or do as one pleases
“Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on”
“a footloose young man eager to see the big city”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for footloose come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.