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free
Synonyms and Antonyms of free
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not being under the rule or control of another
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no longer burdened with something unpleasant or painful
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not bound, confined, or detained by force
at large, at liberty
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not costing or charging anything
on the house
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allowing passage without obstruction
impassable (also impassible)
constricted, cramped, encumbered, hampered, hindered, impeded, interfered (with), trammeled (or trammelled)
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giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation
cheap, close, closefisted, costive, illiberal [archaic], mingy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, selfish, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous
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not being in a state of use, activity, or employment
at rest, on the shelf, out of commission
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showing a lack of proper social reserve or modesty
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
domineering, high-handed, imperious
self-absorbed, self-centered, self-concerned, self-engrossed, self-infatuated, self-interested, self-involved, selfish, self-obsessed, self-seeking
demure, down-to-earth, humble, lowly, meek, unassertive, unpretentious
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not physically attached to another unit
Synonym Discussion of free
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- you're free to do as you like
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- the colony's struggle to become independent
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- separate and sovereign armed services
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- in this denomination each congregation is regarded as autonomous
free
Synonyms and Antonyms of free
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to set free (as from slavery or confinement)
discharge, disenthrall (also disenthral), emancipate, enfranchise, enlarge, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter
turn loose
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to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions
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to rid the surface of (as an area) from things in the way
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to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers
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to set free from entanglement or difficulty
cut loose
Synonym Discussion of free
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- freed the animals from their cages
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- released his anger on a punching bag
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- liberated their country from the tyrant
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- labor-saving devices emancipated us from household drudgery
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- the document manumitted the slaves
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