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.
Definitions
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
- superlative. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
- superlative. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
- superlative. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
- superlative. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
- superlative. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
- superlative. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
- superlative. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
- superlative. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
- superlative. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
- superlative. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
- superlative. Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
- superlative. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
- adverb. Freely; willingly.
- adverb. Without charge; as, children admitted free.
- adjective. 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.
- adjective. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
- adjective. To frank.
- noun. people who are free
"the home of the free and the brave"
- verb. make (assets) available
"release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"
- verb. let off the hook
"I absolve you from this responsibility"
- verb. free or remove obstruction from
"free a path across the cluttered floor"
- verb. 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"
- verb. release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- verb. part with a possession or right
"I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"
"resign a claim to the throne"
- verb. relieve from
"Rid the house of pests"
- 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"
- verb. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
"She exempted me from the exam"
- adjective. not literal
"a loose interpretation of what she had been told"
"a free translation of the poem"
- adjective. completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"
"young recruits destitute of experience"
- adjective. unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
"free expansion"
"free oxygen"
- adjective. not fixed in position
"the detached shutter fell on him"
"he pulled his arm free and ran"
- adjective. able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
"free enterprise"
"a free port"
- adjective. not held in servitude
"after the Civil War he was a free man"
- adjective. not occupied or in use
"a free locker"
"a free lane"
- adjective. not taken up by scheduled activities
"a free hour between classes"
"spare time on my hands"
- adjective. costing nothing
"complimentary tickets"
"free admission"
- adverb. without restraint
"cows in India are running loose"
Synonyms
release, unblock, unfreeze, absolve, justify, disengage, dislodge, liberate, relinquish, resign, disembarrass, rid, loose, unloose, unloosen, discharge, exempt, relieve, liberal, barren, destitute, devoid, innocent, detached
Anagrams
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Common word forms
freed, freer, frees, freely, freest, freeing, freeness
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