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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roaming |
| Synonyms: | afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, on foot, peripatetic, ranging, riding the rails, roving, shifting, travelling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
| Antonyms: | permanent, settled |
| Main Entry: | loose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not tight; unconstrained |
| Synonyms: | apart, asunder, at large, baggy, clear, detached, disconnected, easy, escaped, flabby, flaccid, floating, free, hanging, insecure, lax, liberated, limp, loosened, movable, not fitting, relaxed, released, separate, slack, slackened, sloppy, unattached, unbolted, unbound, unbuttoned, uncaged, unclasped, unconfined, unconnected, undone, unfastened, unfettered, unhinged, unhooked, unlatched, unlocked, unpinned, unrestrained, unrestricted, unsecured, unshackled, untied, wobbly |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
| Antonyms: | constrained, restricted, taut, tight |
| Main Entry: | uncommitted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | free; not involved |
| Synonyms: | cut loose, don't care, fence-sitting, floating, free-spirited, laid-back*, middle ground, middle of the road, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan, on the fence, restrained, unaffiliated, unattached, uninvolved, unpledged |
| Antonyms: | aligned, attached, committed, involved, united |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unrealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not believable or practical |
| Synonyms: | blue sky, floating, gone*, half-baked, impossible, impracticable, impractical, improbable, ivory-tower, nonrealistic, nonsensical, not applicable, not sensible, on cloud nine, quixotic, reachy, romantic, silly, starry-eyed, theoretical, unreal, unworkable |
| Antonyms: | believable, practical, pragmatic, realistic, reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wayfaring |
| Synonyms: | floating, moving, rambling, roaming, traveling, wandering |
| Main Entry: | swimming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | water sport |
| Synonyms: | aquatics, floating, natation |
| Main Entry: | swimming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing in liquid |
| Synonyms: | floating, natant, natatorial, natatory |
| Main Entry: | swimming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traversing water |
| Synonyms: | bathing, dizziness, floating, giddiness, natation, supernatation, transnatation, vertigo |
| Main Entry: | hopped-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | on drugs |
| Synonyms: | benumbed, blown away, coked, comatose, dazed, doped, dopey, drugged, floating*, flying*, high*, intoxicated, junked-up, loaded, narcotized, on a trip, out of it, ripped, smashed, spaced-out, stoned, strung out, stupefied, unconscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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