单词 | unfree |
释义 | unfree (once / 44771 pages) adj WORD FAMILY unfree: unfreer+/free: freed, freeing, freely, freer, frees, freest, unfree/freely: freelys USAGE EXAMPLESMake no mistake about it: Northern industrialists wanted cheap southern cotton as much as southern planters wanted unfree labor. Salon(Nov 25, 2016) If home was my mother’s novel, then we were its created characters, essential but unfree. New York Times(Aug 31, 2016) She flipped slave-based capitalism on its head by “stealing” her own body and those of others from its unpaid, unfree grip. Washington Post(Apr 22, 2016) 1adj held in servitude Syn|Ant servile relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants slaveholdingallowing slavery free not held in servitude freeable to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint freebornborn free of free parents free-soil, non-slave, slavelesswhere slavery was prohibited 2adj hampered and not free; not able to act at will Syn|Ant bound confined by bonds confinednot free to move about dependentrelying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed adscript, adscripted(used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner apprenticed, articled, bound, indenturedbound by contract at bay, cornered, trapped, treedforced to turn and face attackers captive, confined, imprisoned, jailedbeing in captivity entangledinvolved in difficulties nonautonomous, nonsovereign(of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces prisonlikeresembling a prison serflikelike someone in servitude restrictedsubject to restriction or subjected to restriction free able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint unboundnot restrained or tied down by bonds unconfinednot confined independentfree from external control and constraint at large, escaped, loose, on the loosehaving escaped, especially from confinement autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereign(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces available, uncommittednot busy; not otherwise committed atrip, aweigh(of an anchor) just clear of the bottom clearfree from contact or proximity or connection emancipated, liberatedfree from traditional social restraints footloosefree to go or do as one pleases out-of-schoolnot attending school and therefore free to work unconfined, unimprisonedfree from confinement or physical restraint unconstrainedfree from constraint unhamperednot held in check or subject to control unrestrictedfree of restrictions on conduct freenot held in servitude unrestrainednot subject to restraint unrestrictednot subject to or subjected to restriction |
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