<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>not strict or severe; careless or negligent</li><li>loose or slack; not tense, rigid, or firm</li><li>not rigidly exact or precise; vague</li><li>open, loose, or not retentive, as diarrheal bowels</li><li>(of a person) having the bowels unusually loose or open</li><li>open or not compact; having a loosely cohering structure; porous</li><li>(of a vowel) articulated with relatively relaxed tongue muscles</li></ul>