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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. loose ends: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. loose ends: Merriam-Webster
  3. loose ends: Collins English Dictionary
  4. loose ends: Vocabulary.com
  5. loose ends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. loose ends: Wiktionary
  7. Loose Ends (EP), Loose Ends (Jimi Hendrix album), Loose Ends (band), Loose Ends (film), Loose Ends (radio), Loose Ends: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Loose Ends: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loose ends: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (loose ends)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Leftover items that have not been addressed or attended to.

Similar:
unfinished business, slack, left-behind, reticences, rest, others, dead end, lost ground, dangler, dead wood, more...

Opposite:
tidy, neat, orderly

Phrases:
at loose ends, be at loose ends, tie up loose ends, attend to loose ends, more...

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Similar:
unfinished business, slack, left-behind, reticences, rest, others, dead end, lost ground, dangler, dead wood, more...

Opposite:
tidy, neat, orderly

Phrases:
at loose ends, be at loose ends, tie up loose ends, attend to loose ends, more...



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