Free

[friː] or [fri]

Definition

(noun.) people who are free; 'the home of the free and the brave'.

(verb.) free or remove obstruction from; 'free a path across the cluttered floor'.

(verb.) grant freedom to; free from confinement.

(verb.) free from obligations or duties.

(verb.) make (information) available for publication; 'release the list with the names of the prisoners'.

(adj.) not literal; 'a loose interpretation of what she had been told'; 'a free translation of the poem' .

(adj.) unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; 'free expansion'; 'free oxygen'; 'a free electron' .

(adj.) able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; 'free enterprise'; 'a free port'; 'a free country'; 'I have an hour free'; 'free will'; 'free of racism'; 'feel free to stay as long as you wish'; 'a free choice' .

(adj.) not held in servitude; 'after the Civil War he was a free man' .

(adj.) not occupied or in use; 'a free locker'; 'a free lane' .

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Definition

(superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.

(superl.) Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.

(superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.

(superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.

(superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.

(superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.

(superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.

(superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

(superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.

(superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.

(superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.

(superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.

(superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.

(superl.) Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.

(superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.

(superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.

(superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.

(superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.

(superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.

(adv.) Freely; willingly.

(adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free.

(a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.

(a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.

(a.) To frank.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Independent, unrestrained, at liberty.[2]. Released, delivered, emancipated, liberated.[3]. Exempt, clear.[4]. Allowed, permitted, open.[5]. Unobstructed, unimpeded, unrestricted, open.[6]. Frank, ingenuous, candid, artless, sincere, unreserved, frank-hearted.[7]. Generous, liberal, bountiful, charitable, munificent, free-hearted, open-handed, not parsimonious.[8]. Prodigal, lavish, immoderate.[9]. Ready, eager, prompt, willing.[10]. Gratuitous, spontaneous, willing.

v. a. [1]. Liberate, emancipate, manumit, release, disinthral, enfranchise, deliver, set free, set at liberty.[2]. Rid, clear, disengage.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Detached, playing, operating, open, unoccupied, unobstructed, unimpeded,permitted, unhindered, exempt, gratuitous, unconditional, at_liberty, clear,liberal, untrammelled, uncounted, careless, loose, easy, munificent,unreserved, frank, bountiful, generous, bounteous

ANT:Subservient, bound, shackled, restricted, clogged, occupied, obstructed,impeded, compulsory, unlawful, biased, subject, liable, amenable, conditional,qualified, niggardly, stingy

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Definition

adj. not bound: at liberty: not under arbitrary government: unimpeded: set at liberty: guiltless: frank: lavish: not attached: exempt (with from): having a franchise (with of): gratuitous: bold indecent: idiomatic as a translation.—v.t. to set at liberty: to deliver from what confines: to rid (with from of):—pr.p. free′ing; pa.p. freed.—ns. Free′-ag′ency state or power of acting freely or without necessity or constraint upon the will; Free′-ag′ent; Free′-and-eas′y a kind of public-house club where good fellows gather to smoke and sing; Free′-bench a widow's right to dower out of her husband's lands so long as unmarried and chaste; Free′-board the space between a vessel's line of flotation and the upper side of the deck; Free′booter (Dut. vrijbuiter) one who roves about freely in search of booty: a plunderer; Free′bootery.—adj. Free′booting acting the part of a freebooter: robbing.—n. the practice of a freebooter: robbery pillage.—n. Free′booty.—adj. Free′born born of free parents.—ns. Free′-cit′y a city having independent government; Free′-cost freedom from charges; Freed′man a man who has been a slave and has been freed or set free; Free′dom liberty: frankness: separation: privileges connected with a city: improper familiarity: license; Free′-fish′er one who has a right to take fish in certain waters.—adjs. Free-foot′ed (Shak.) not restrained in movement; Free′-hand applied to drawing by the unguided hand; Free′-hand′ed open-handed: liberal; Free′-heart′ed open-hearted: liberal.—ns. Free′-heart′edness liberality: frankness; Free′hold a property held free of duty except to the king; Free′holder one who possesses a freehold; Free′-lā′bour voluntary not slave labour; Free′-lance one of certain roving companies of knights and men-at-arms who after the Crusades wandered about Europe selling their services to any one; Free′-liv′er one who freely indulges his appetite for eating and drinking: a glutton; Free′-love the claim to freedom in sexual relations unshackled by marriage or obligation to aliment.—adv. Free′ly.—ns. Free′man a man who is free or enjoys liberty: one who holds a particular franchise or privilege:—pl. Free′men; Free′māson one of a secret society of so-called speculative masons united in lodges for social enjoyment and mutual assistance and laying dubious claim to a connection with the medieval organisations of free operative masons.—adj. Freemason′ic.—n. Freemā′sonry the institutions practices &c. of Freemasons.—adj. Free′-mind′ed with a mind free or unperplexed: without a load of care.—ns. Free′ness; Free′-port a port where no duties are levied on articles of commerce; Free′-school a school where no tuition fees are exacted; Free′-shot (Ger. Freisché»·z) the name given to a legendary hunter and marksman who gets a number of bullets (Freikugeln) from the devil six of which always hit the mark while the seventh is at the disposal of the devil himself.—adjs. Free′-soil in favour of free territory opposed to slavery; Free′-spōk′en accustomed to speak without reserve.—ns. Free′-spōk′enness; Free′stone an easily quarried stone composed of sand or grit.—adj. having a stone from which the pulp easily separates as a peach—opp. to Clingstone.—adj. Free′-swim′ming swimming freely as an aquatic animal.—ns. Free′thinker one who professes to be free from conventional authority in religion: a rationalist; Free′thinking Free′-thought the habit of mind of a freethinker.—adj. Free′-tongued free-spoken.—ns. Free′-trade free or unrestricted trade: free interchange of commodities without protective duties; Free′-trad′er one who practises or advocates this; Free′-will freedom of the will from restraint: liberty of choice: power of self-determination.—adj. spontaneous.—Free-cell formation the formation of several cells from and in the protoplasm of the mother-cell; Free Church that branch of the Presbyterians in Scotland which left the Established Church in the Disruption of 1843 finding spiritual independence impossible within it: a church whose sittings are open to all: (pl.) a term often applied to the Nonconformist churches generally; Free list the list of persons admitted without payment to a theatre &c. or of those to whom a book &c. is sent; Free on board (F.O.B.) a phrase meaning that goods are to be delivered on the vessel or other conveyance without charge.—Free States in America before the Civil War of 1861-65 those of the United States in which slavery did not exist as opposed to Slave States.—Make free with to take undue liberties with.

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