Free

/fɹiː/ · adjective

Meaning

(social) Unconstrained..

Definitions by Sense

1. (social) Unconstrained.
2. Obtainable without any payment.
3. (abstract) Unconstrained.
4. (physical) Unconstrained.
5. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
6. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
7. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
8. (UK, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.

Example Sentences

He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.

Quickly, spirit! / Thou shalt ere long be free.

There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”

Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.

The government provides free health care.

It's free real estate.

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat.  I would like to live free from care in the mountains.

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Word Forms

• freer
• more free
• freest
• most free
• frees
• freeing
• freed

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