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footloose

footloose adjective: tending to travel or do as one pleases; readily without many commitments or responsibility.

Adjective

footloose (comparative more footloose, superlative most footloose)

  1. Tending to travel or do as one pleases; readily without many commitments or responsibility.
    • He was footloose in his youth.
    • Because we often imagine that immigrants are constantly on the move, footloose, able to change course at any moment.2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 465
  2. Of a sail: not properly secured at the bottom.

footloose meaning in Tamil and Kannada

footloose in Tamil

வரையறியில்லா பொறுப்பின்மை, கட்டில்லா நிலை

footloose in Kannada

ಉಂಡಾಡಿ, ಮನಸ್ವಿ, ಸ್ವೇಚ್ಛಾಚಾರದ, ಸಂಸಾರದ ಬಂಧನವಿಲ್ಲದ

Forms of footloose

comparativemore footloose
superlativemost footloose

Origin of footloose

From foot + loose.

Words formed from footloose

Phrases with footloose

Questions about footloose

What does footloose mean?
Footloose means tending to travel or do as one pleases; readily without many commitments or responsibility.
What is footloose in Tamil?
Footloose in Tamil is வரையறியில்லா பொறுப்பின்மை, கட்டில்லா நிலை. See Footloose meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is footloose?
Footloose is an adjective.

Words near footloose in the dictionary

  1. footlockers
  2. footlog
  3. footlogs
  4. footlong
  5. footlongs
  6. footloose
  7. footloose and fancy free
  8. footloose and fancy-free
  9. footlooseness
  10. footly
  11. footmaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footloose (page history and authors); footloose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); footloose (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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