unstuckadjective
uk/ʌnˈstʌk/us/ʌnˈstʌk/unstuck adjective (NOT ATTACHED)
[ after verb ] no longer stuck:
The packing tape on the box came unstuck and some of the contents fell out.
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Flexible, loose and yielding
- adrift
- bendable
- bendy
- ductile
- elastic
- flowing
- jointed
- loose
- loose-fitting
- loosely
- looseness
- plastic
- slackness
- spring
- springy
- sprung
- stretch
- stretchy
- supple
- yield
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unstuck adjective (NOT SUCCESSFUL)
come unstuck mainly UK informal
to experience difficulties and fail:
It was in the third round of the championships that they came unstuck.
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Unsuccessful (people and things)
- abortive
- achiever
- barren
- be dead in the water idiom
- botched
- counterproductive
- flatline
- frustrated
- futile
- go/get/head nowhere idiom
- inauspicious
- lame duck
- rope
- small-time
- stillborn
- struggling
- the doldrums
- unavailing
- unglued
- washed up
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