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sit loosely

sit loosely is the alternative form of sit loose.

Meaning of sit loose

Verb

sit loose (third-person singular simple present sits loose, present participle sitting loose, simple past and past participle sat loose)

  1. (dated) To be careless or indifferent (to something).
    • […] the man who, sitting loose to the objects of the world, has become altogether a Christian.1848, Thomas Chalmers, Sermons on public occasions, page 286

Forms of sit loosely

third-person singular presentsits loosely
present participlesitting loosely
past participlesat loosely
pastsat loosely

Questions about sit loosely

What is sit loosely the alternative form of?
Sit loosely is the alternative form of sit loose.

Words near sit loosely in the dictionary

  1. sit in judgment
  2. sit in on
  3. sit in the wheels
  4. sit in with
  5. sit loose
  6. sit loosely
  7. sit off
  8. sit on
  9. sit on a tack
  10. sit on death's doorstep
  11. sit on it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sit loosely (page history and authors); sit loose (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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