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adjective

as in untied

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unfastened

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verb

past tense of unfasten
as in loosened
to disengage the knotted parts of gently unfastened the strings of the baby's hood

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Recent Examples of unfastened
Verb
After the pink fabric is unfastened from styrofoam beams floating 200 feet out from each island, the sections are towed to shore and rolled up in bundles, Morgan said. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026 Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me. — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026 Kelce unfastened the clasp on another necklace and then a third, before Chris Jones, his teammate for a decade, walked over and approached him. — Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2026 Adama unfastened a padlock and loosened the chain securing the doors. — Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfastened
  1. untied
  2. loosened
  3. detached
  4. undid
  5. unattached
  6. unbound
  7. undone
  8. unsecured
Adjective
  • While Salomon sneakers are, in part, known for their shoelaces that never come untied, this pair doesn’t have any at all.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • Grandaddy, unbeaten and untied and still heavyweight champion of the college football world.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
Definition of untied
Verb
  • That’s not something most people talked about or perhaps even knew about as officials loosened development regulations to boost housing construction.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2026
  • These guidelines were loosened after the team's first two matches.
    — Jamie Gray, NBC news, 9 July 2026
Definition of loosened
Adjective
  • Or a pig’s leg lying off to the side, detached and jittering, could resemble Ted’s leg.
    — Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • They got approved for a mortgage on a £150,000 (about $198,441) two-bedroom, semi-detached house in Seaham, England.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
Definition of detached
Verb
  • But when renovating an 18th-century apartment on a side street in the Marais, architect Clément Lesnoff-Rocard boldly undid a number of alterations to the home over the years.
    — Felix Wagner, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2026
  • This movie completely undid my sense of what that type of filmmaking could be.
    — Stephanie Bai, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Definition of undid
Adjective
  • Finally, showering within two hours of coming indoors can help wash away any unattached ticks.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • There are now more unattached women in the country than married ones.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of unattached
Adjective
  • Then the coach known as the most impulsive man on an NFL sideline runs that stop sign, grits his teeth and breaks unbound into character.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • His vibrant original compositions were faithfully reproduced using stencil and combined with an original text written by the artist to form the unbound book.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Mar. 2026
Definition of unbound
Adjective
  • Elsewhere, the intentionally undone Amazona 18 bag, introduced at Loewe by Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, was back once again in a swathe of new colourways and finishes.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 13 July 2026
  • Between latte makeup and toasty makeup, bronzer-heavy, neutral-toned trends have dominated our feeds for the past few seasons, continuing this summer with more of an undone, effortless feel.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 July 2026
Definition of undone
Adjective
  • Credit-rating agency NICE Investors Service subsequently slashed JTBC’s unsecured bond rating from BBB Negative to CCC, while Korea Ratings downgraded it from BBB Negative to BB under negative review.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 July 2026
  • In many situations, unsecured creditors such as credit card companies must absorb the remaining loss.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of unsecured

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