FREE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Free

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/fri/ Listen

Free

adjective

(compar. freer; superl. freest)

1.

Able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint. "A free port" , "A free country" , "I have an hour free" , "Free will" , "Free of racism" , "Feel free to stay as long as you wish" , "A free choice"

2.

Unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion. "Free oxygen" , "A free electron"

3.

Costing nothing. Synonyms: complimentary, costless, gratis, gratuitous. "Free admission"

4.

Not occupied or in use. "A free lane"

5.

Not fixed in position. Synonym: detached. "He pulled his arm free and ran"

6.

Not held in servitude.

7.

Not taken up by scheduled activities. Synonym: spare. "Spare time on my hands"

8.

Completely wanting or lacking. Synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, innocent. "Young recruits destitute of experience" , "Innocent of literary merit" , "The sentence was devoid of meaning"

9.

Not literal. Synonyms: liberal, loose. "A free translation of the poem"

verb

(past & past part. freed; pres. part. freeing)

1.

Grant freedom to; free from confinement. Synonyms: liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen.

2.

Relieve from. Synonyms: disembarrass, rid.

3.

Remove or force out from a position. Synonym: dislodge. "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"

4.

Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to. Synonyms: exempt, relieve.

5.

Make (information) available for publication. Synonym: release.

6.

Free from obligations or duties. Synonym: discharge.

7.

Free or remove obstruction from. Synonym: disengage.

8.

Let off the hook. Synonyms: absolve, justify.

9.

Part with a possession or right. Synonyms: give up, release, relinquish, resign. "Resign a claim to the throne"

10.

Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition. Synonyms: liberate, release.

11.

Make (assets) available. Synonyms: release, unblock, unfreeze.

noun

1.

People who are free. Synonym: free people.

adverb

1.

Without restraint. Synonym: loose.

See more definitions of Free...

See images of 'Free'

Antonyms of 'Free'

Etymology of 'Free'

Related searches:

free association

free central placentation

free enterprise

free nerve ending

Free Soil Party

free throw lane

free-enterprise

1 2 Next

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Free" Quotes from Famous Books

... the captain, "it has its compensations. I like the free, wild life of the sea. The ocean, even in its stormiest aspects, has a charm ...

— Brave and Bold • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... builds his nest, and in the middle of each quadrangle, a penguin, so that every albatross is surrounded by four penguins, and every penguin has albatross on four sides as neighbors. In this way the whole place is regularly occupied, and only at some distance are places left free for other sea-fowl, such as the green comorant ...

— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various

... all my days would prove as quiet and happy as this has been, I would enter into bonds never to quit the confines of Le Bocage again. Ah! the indescribable relief of feeling that nothing was expected of me; that the galling gyves of hospitality and etiquette were snapped, and that I was entirely free from all danger of intrusion. This day shall be marked with a white stone; for I entered my rooms at twelve o'clock, and remained there in uninterrupted peace till five minutes ago; when I put ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... guessing power of the people at the hotel in respect to the names of "Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly, Missouri," on the register. They were handsome enough fellows, that was evident, browned by out-door exposure, and with a free and lordly way about them that almost awed the hotel clerk himself. Indeed, he very soon set down Mr. Brierly as a gentleman of large fortune, with enormous interests on his shoulders. Harry had ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 3. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... Vice-chancellor began to make certain observations, even Mr. Tom, whose care for the future of his sister had now quite overcome all his scorn for that fellow Hanbury, grew somewhat alarmed. The Court did not all appear inclined to take the free-and-easy view of the matter that had been anticipated. The Vice-Chancellor's sentences, one after the other, seemed to become more and more severe, as he described the gross conduct and contempt of which this young man had been guilty. He deplored the condition ...

— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com