meaning of free
1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow ones own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining ones own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
2. 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.
3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
14. 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.
15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
16. 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.
17. Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
18. Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
20. Freely; willingly.
21. Without charge; as, children admitted free.
22. A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
23. The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.
24. 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.
25. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
26. To frank.
Related Words
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