loosely knit

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   having only distant social or legal ties

   “a loosely knit group”

   Similardistant

Questions about loosely knit

What does loosely knit mean?

loosely knit means "having only distant social or legal ties".

Is loosely knit a common word?

loosely knit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.