footloose

adjective

foot·​loose ˈfu̇t-ˌlüs 

: having no ties : free to move about

Synonyms

• free
• loose
• unbound
• unconfined
• unrestrained

Examples of footloose in a Sentence

When she was 20, she was footloose and fancy-free, with no family or serious career to tie her down.

after having been chained for so long, the suddenly footloose dog ran helter-skelter about the yard

Recent Examples on the Web

Defiant and determined to get back home on his own to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, George encounters real danger as a distraught Rita tries to find her footloose son. —Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024

The footloose couple performed on the opening night of the Symphony of Dance tour in Melbourne, Fl. —Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024

Huppert plays a footloose and intense French woman at large in Korea and vaguely making ends meet as an untrained language tutor with eccentric methods. —Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024

This anthology is a footloose excavation of Muslim food writing foraged from some of South Asia’s best writers, with a recipe tailing each essay. —Meher Mirza, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for footloose

• abstruse
• abuse
• adduce
• atreus
• caboose
• cayuse
• conduce
• deduce
• diffuse
• disuse
• excuse
• induce

Kids Definition

footloose

adjective

foot·​loose -ˌlüs 

: having no ties : free to roam