Lacking cohesiveness or solidity; not compact or firm; crumbling, loose; soft.

Of sand, soil, etc.: lacking coherence or cohesion, so that objects resting on the surface tend to sink or subside; loose, yielding, unstable.

Without physical coherence or cohesion; consisting of parts which do not stick or cling together; unconnected, disjoined, loose.

That does not cohere: = incoherent, adj. 1.

Mining. (See quots.)

Not cohesive; without cohesion; that has not the quality of sticking together.