UNFREE Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

unfree

adjective

Definition of unfree

as in dependent

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Recent Examples of unfree There are many ways for a country to become unfree. — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026 Other places had other forms of unfree or bonded labor. — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026 Until a few years ago, millions of Iranians repeatedly voted in the country’s mostly unfree elections, hoping that regime insiders could pave a path for reform. — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026 His brother, god of hunting and tracking, is caught in the cruel paradox of parole — somehow still unfree and searching for liberty and purpose, yearning for the seeming escape of his own car on the open road, always in danger of being hunted down himself. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unfree

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Unlike wealthy nations with the reserves and infrastructure to buffer the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, import-dependent economies are more vulnerable to immediate, cascading supply chain shocks.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
This exhausting existence has kept Lucky emotionally dependent on her father.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 July 2026

Definition of dependent

Adjective

The cameras picked up a subject matching Gray’s description getting out of the Range Rover and fleeing southbound on Courtland Avenue.

— Harry Harris, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
While everything from algebra to essay writing may have been covered in school, a subject area often left off the curriculum is personal finance.

— Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 13 July 2026

Definition of subject

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Burnout now consumes American physicians, who are overworked, nonautonomous and adrift without help.

— Aaron Rothstein, wsj.com, 3 Apr. 2023
The absence of access for nonautonomous conferences like the American Athletic Conference has also been a point of contention.

— Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 14 May 2021

Definition of nonautonomous

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Robinson plays Henry, an enslaved person working on a plantation in Texas who’s wrongly accused of raping his master’s wife.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
One was an enslaved young poet whose words crossed the Atlantic before they were fully embraced at home.

— Robin Follman, Oc Register, 4 July 2026

Definition of enslaved

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