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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
loose-fitting
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A kung fu suit should be loose-fitting, with buttons and a high collar.
▪ I wore loose-fitting clothes to protect me from the heat of the sun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A normal, loose-fitting skirt can be split up the side and fitting with a Velcro fastening.
▪ I might wear trousers or, at the moment, a pair of loose-fitting ski-type pants.
▪ Patsy, 24, wearing a loose-fitting dress and comfy sandals, filled eight carriers when she unloaded her trolley.
▪ They were both pale-faced, hot and dishevelled, and dressed in loose-fitting crumpled clothes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
loose-fitting

loose-fitting \loose-fitting\ adj. large enough to leave space for movement over the skin; not tight-fitting; -- of clothing. Opposite of close-fitting, tight, and tight-fitting.

Syn: loose.

Wiktionary
loose-fitting

a. baggy, not tight

WordNet
loose-fitting

adj. not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather" [syn: baggy]

Usage examples of "loose-fitting".

The third man, whose thin body and narrow face seemed lost in his loose-fitting uniform, took Canfield by the elbow and walked him to a corner.

Humphries was a shriveled little raisin of a man, with twiglike arms and legs that looked wholly insubstantial for supporting the fragile frame over which his loose-fitting coat and trousers were arranged.

She wore a loose-fitting jacket first, but as they went on, she switched to a heavier, minklike fur jacket, fur stocking cap and heavy, leathery gloves that were fur-lined.

It was a cool evening thanks to the rain, so I was dressed in loose-fitting breeches and a robelike shirt that came to just below my hips.

Every second or third shot, or so it seemed, was a long lingering closeup of the heroine, showing her swathed almost from chin to ankles in clothing that was not only loose-fitting but practically opaque.

One of them, a slender, small woman in a loose-fitting dress, looked around, spotted MacDonald, and made her way shakily to him.

As Lara took off her own cloak, she revealed that beneath she was wearing the same loose-fitting coarse garments he and Picard had first seen her in, when they had arrived in the camp with their Bajoran rescuer, Corrin Tal.

They were both wearing loose-fitting, sleeveless robes called abas, one of them blue, the other green.

Because the Prophet had worn a beard and a loose-fitting abaya, so did he.

She was wearing a loose-fitting, long-sleeved black T-shirt, baggy black cargo pants, and black combat boots.

He wore a loose-fitting, dark-colored silk blouse and the traditional black hakama, the divided skirt of the archer.

He wore a battered brown hat pulled down low over his face, a white shirt with brown vest, and loose-fitting slacks.

Under the torn, loose-fitting robe, Falah wore a tight rubber belt strapped to his waist.

The Indian before him was dressed like an other Sierra Blanca Apache: loose-fitting gray cotton shirt.

A number of them wear loose-fitting T-shirts decorated with a large blue trident, the same insignia that decorates the ship's three smokestacks.