loosen

Other forms of loosen

past tense

loosenned·

present participle

loosenning·

third person

loosens·

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.

Questions about loosen

What does loosen mean?

loosen means "make loose or looser". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loosen?

loosen has 2 syllables: loo-sen. The stress falls on "loo". In IPA it is /ˈlusən/.

What is another word for loosen?

Close synonyms include loose, relax, relax, tease, tease apart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of loosen?

The recorded antonyms are stiffen, stiffen.

Is loosen a common word?

loosen is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.