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say it: FUUT-loos
footloose is an adjective meaning "free to go or do as one pleases". It is pronounced /ˈfʊtˌlus/ — FUUT-loos. 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.