loose-jointed


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loose-joint·ed

(lo͞os′join′tĭd)
adj.
1. Having freely articulated, highly mobile joints.
2. Limber or agile in movement.

loose′-joint′ed·ness n.
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loose-jointed

adj
1. supple and easy in movement
2. loosely built; with ill-fitting joints
ˌloose-ˈjointedness n
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loose′-joint′ed



adj.
1. having or marked by easy, free movement; limber.
2. having loose joints.
[1855–60]
loose′-joint′ed•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.loose-jointed - loosely articulated or constructed; "a loose-jointed paragraph"
lax - lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "a lax rope"; "a limp handshake"
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References in classic literature ?
He has a big, loose-jointed figure with absurdly long legs.
Yours very truly, Charles Westmacott." The whole was written in a large, loose-jointed, and school-boyish hand, very thin on the up strokes and thick on the down, as though care and pains had gone to the fashioning of it.
A huge, loose-jointed man was standing there, unshaven, untidily dressed, and with the look in his eyes of a man who has been drinking heavily.
One of the hunters, a tall, loose-jointed chap named Henderson, was going aft at the time from the steerage (the name the hunters facetiously gave their midships sleeping quarters) to the cabin.
One day While Fang encountered a young wolf, gaunt and scrawny, loose-jointed with famine.
Mine host, who stood behind the bar, like most of his country men, was great of stature, good-natured and loose-jointed, with an enormous shock of hair on his head, and a great tall hat on the top of that.
Cecil Barker's tall, loose-jointed figure was a familiar one in the main street of Birlstone village; for he was a frequent and welcome visitor at the Manor House.
Why so afeard, my sweet cinnamon?" exclaimed the other, a loose-jointed lanky youth with a dancing, roguish eye.
He moved with a loose-jointed Hawaiian casualness, never given to hurry, even and especially when instructed to hurry."
Born in 2011, Fatebe is the precocious child and loose-jointed alter ego of artist Ebecho Muslimova.
That is why he was revolved, possibly hated, mocked as a politically naive, loose-jointed journalist with no pretence at academic brilliance or incisive analysis, who catered to an easy generation with a combination of sex, once, design and prose that was easy on the eye and not too demanding on the mind.
Women, because of their wider hips as well as their hormonal make-up, have a tendency to be more loose-jointed and flexible.