CLOSE-KNIT Antonyms

• used of buildings; standing apart from others

• showing lack of emotional involvement

• being or feeling set or kept apart from others

• no longer connected or joined

• lacking affection or warm feeling

• not fixed in position

• (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply

• having been divided; having the unity destroyed

• marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions

• not plugged in or connected to a power source

• lacking orderly continuity

• lacking orderly continuity

• taken apart at the joints

• separated at the joint

• separated in space or coming from or going to a distance

• far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship

• remote in manner

• separate or apart in time

• located far away spatially

• having been divided; having the unity destroyed

• not close together in time

• being or feeling set or kept apart from others

• marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements

• cut off or left behind

• under forced isolation especially for health reasons

• remote and separate physically or socially

• not compact or dense in structure or arrangement

• not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting

• not affixed

• without restraint

• (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player

• not officially recognized or controlled

• not literal

• emptying easily or excessively

• not tense or taut

• (of textures) full of small openings or gaps

• lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility

• not carefully arranged in a package

• having escaped, especially from confinement

• casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• turn loose or free from restraint

• make loose or looser

• become loose or looser or less tight

• affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed

• affording free passage or access

• used of mouth or eyes

• (set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints

• ready or willing to receive favorably

• open and observable; not secret or hidden

• a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water

• where the air is unconfined

• a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play

• information that has become public

• with no protection or shield

• open to or in view of all

• not having been filled

• accessible to all

• not defended or capable of being defended

• (of textures) full of small openings or gaps

• having no protecting cover or enclosure

• not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought

• not sealed or having been unsealed

• without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition

• not requiring union membership

• possibly accepting or permitting

• affording free passage or view

• openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness

• ready for business

• cause to open or to become open

• start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning

• become open

• begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.

• spread out or open from a closed or folded state

• make available

• become available

• have an opening or passage or outlet

• make the opening move

• afford access to

• display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer

• occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space

• lacking orderly continuity

• being or feeling set or kept apart from others

• spaced apart

• separated at the joint

• no longer connected or joined