Entry Word: captive

Function: adjective

Meaning: taken and held prisoner <the captive soldiers were treated humanely by the guards>

Synonyms apprehended, arrested, captured, caught, imprisoned, incarcerated, interned, jailed

Related Words bound, enslaved, indentured; subdued, subjugated

Near Antonyms emancipated, enfranchised, freed, liberated, released

Antonyms free