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free
free is a 4-letter English word with 46 senses as adverb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 46 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
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.
- 2superlative
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.
- 3superlative
Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
- 4superlative
Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
- 5superlative
Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
- 6superlative
Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
- 7superlative
Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
- 8superlative
Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
- 9superlative
Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
- 10superlative
Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
- 11superlative
Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
- 12superlative
Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
- 13superlative
Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
- 14superlative
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.
- 15superlative
Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
- 16superlative
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.
- 17superlative
Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
- 18superlative
Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
- 19superlative
Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
- 20adverb
Freely; willingly.
- 21adverb
Without charge; as, children admitted free.
- 22adjective
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.
- 23adjective
To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
- 24adjective
To frank.
- 25noun
people who are free
"the home of the free and the brave"
- 26verb
make (assets) available
"release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"
- 27verb
let off the hook
"I absolve you from this responsibility"
- 28verb
free or remove obstruction from
"free a path across the cluttered floor"
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- 29verb
remove or force out from a position
"The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"
"He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"
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- 30verb
release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- 31verb
part with a possession or right
"I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"
"resign a claim to the throne"
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- 32verb
relieve from
"Rid the house of pests"
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- 33verb
grant freedom to; free from confinement
- 34verb
free from obligations or duties
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- 35verb
make (information) available for publication
"release the list with the names of the prisoners"
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- 36verb
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
"She exempted me from the exam"
- 37adjective
not literal
"a loose interpretation of what she had been told"
"a free translation of the poem"
- 38adjective
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"
"young recruits destitute of experience"
- 39adjective
unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
"free expansion"
"free oxygen"
- 40adjective
not fixed in position
"the detached shutter fell on him"
"he pulled his arm free and ran"
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- 41adjective
able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
"free enterprise"
"a free port"
- 42adjective
not held in servitude
"after the Civil War he was a free man"
- 43adjective
not occupied or in use
"a free locker"
"a free lane"
- 44adjective
not taken up by scheduled activities
"a free hour between classes"
"spare time on my hands"
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- 45adjective
costing nothing
"complimentary tickets"
"free admission"
- 46adverb
without restraint
"cows in India are running loose"
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