Meaning

2 senses
  1. Tending to travel or do as one pleases; readily without many commitments or responsibility.

    He was footloose in his youth.

    ungebunden

  2. Of a sail: not properly secured at the bottom.

More definitions
  • free to go or do as one pleases

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
tending to travel:

Origin

From foot + loose.

From foot + loose.

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Forms

more footloose, most footloose
Comparativemore footloose Lesson
Superlativemost footloose Lesson

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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