free

Synonyms

bold, familiar, forward, immodest, overfamiliar, presuming, presumptuous;

Antonyms

modest, unassuming;

Near Antonyms

demure, down-to-earth, humble, lowly, meek, unassertive, unpretentious;

bashful, mousy (or mousey), retiring, shy, timid, timorous;

diffident, self-doubting;

Related Words

arrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic (also egoistical), egomaniacal, egotistic (or egotistical), highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, hoity-toity, important, overweening, pompous, prideful, proud, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vainglorious;

cavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, pretentious, snobbish, stuck-up, supercilious, superior;

audacious, bold-faced, brash, brassbound, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, overbold, pert, sassy, saucy;

confident, self-assured, self-confident, sure;

boastful, braggart, bragging;

domineering, high-handed, imperious;

Synonyms

discharge, disenthrall (also disenthral), emancipate, enfranchise, enlarge, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter;

Antonyms

bind, confine, enchain, fetter, restrain;

Near Antonyms

handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammel;

commit, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock (up);

conquer, enslave, subdue, subjugate;

Related Words

bail (out), deliver, parole, ransom, redeem, rescue, save;

adrift, disembarrass, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, extricate;

unshackle;

Phrases

turn loose;