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let yourself go
Definition
› informal to allow yourself to become less attractive or healthy: It's easy to let yourself go when you've got small kids.Not attractive to look atSerious and unpleasantNot fit and healthyThin or slender (of people) › to relax completely and enjoy yourself: It's a party - let yourself go!Taking pleasure in something
(Definition of let yourself go from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a blot on the landscape idiom
- be no oil painting idiom
- be not much to look at idiom
- blowsy adjective
- charmless adjective
- florid adjective (DECORATED)
- ghoulish adjective
- hideously adverb
- horsey adjective
- icky adjective
- inelegant adjective
- look a fright idiom
- minger noun
- monstrosity noun
- putrid adjective (UNPLEASANT)
- ugly adjective (NOT ATTRACTIVE)
- ugly duckling noun
- unappealing adjective
- unattractive adjective
- unbecoming adjective
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