Word Meaning

Meaning of free

- Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
- Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
- Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
- Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
- Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
- Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
- Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
- Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
- Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
- Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
- Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
- Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
- Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
- Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
- Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
- Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.
- Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
- Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
- Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
- Freely; willingly.
- Without charge; as, children admitted free.
- To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
- To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
- To frank.

Crossword clue for free

- At liberty
- Available without charge
- Cheerful at heart, returning unattached
- Complimentary
- Costing nothing
- Deliver for nothing
- Emancipate
- Gratis
- Gratis (Lat)
- having no commitments
- Liberate
- Liberated
- Not confined
- Oddly force-fed without charge
- On the loose
- Open to all
- Provided without charge
- Release
- Self-governing
- Unfetter
- Unleash
- Untie
- Without charge
- Without cost