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Adjective: free (freer,freest) free- 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" - Costing nothing
"free admission" - complimentary, costless, gratis, gratuitous - Unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
"free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" - Not occupied or in use
"a free locker"; "a free lane" - Not fixed in position
"he pulled his arm free and ran" - detached - Not held in servitude
"after the Civil War he was a free man" - Not taken up by scheduled activities
"a free hour between classes" - spare - Completely wanting or lacking
- barren, destitute, devoid, innocent - Not literal
"a free translation of the poem" - loose, liberal Verb: free (freed,freeing) free- Grant freedom to; free from confinement
- liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose - Relieve from
- rid, disembarrass - Remove or force out from a position
"He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble" - dislodge - Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- exempt, relieve - Make (information) available for publication
- release - Free from obligations or duties
- discharge - Free or remove obstruction from
"free a path across the cluttered floor" - disengage - Let off the hook
- absolve, justify - Part with a possession or right
- release, relinquish, resign, give up - Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- release, liberate - Make (assets) available
- unblock, unfreeze, release Noun: free free- People who are free
"the home of the free and the brave" - free people Adverb: free free- Without restraint
- loose
Derived forms: freer, freest, frees, freed, freeing See also: at large, atrip, autonomous, available, aweigh, clear, emancipated, escaped, footloose, freeborn, freedom, freeing, freely, free-soil, independent, inexact, liberated, loose, nonexistent, non-slave, on the loose, out-of-school, self-governing, slaveless, sovereign, unbound, uncommitted, unconfined, unconstrained, unfixed, unhampered, unimprisoned, unoccupied, unpaid, unrestrained, unrestricted Type of: bring forth, forgive, generate, give, hand, issue, pardon, pass, pass on, people, reach, remove, supply, take, take away, turn over, withdraw Antonym: bound, confine, obstruct, unfree Encyclopedia: Free Free, White and 21 |