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  • English Word Free Definition Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
  • English Word Free Definition Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
  • English Word Free Definition Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
  • English Word Free Definition Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
  • English Word Free Definition Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
  • English Word Free Definition Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
  • English Word Free Definition 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.
  • English Word Free Definition Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
  • English Word Free Definition 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.
  • English Word Free Definition Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
  • English Word Free Definition Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
  • English Word Free Definition Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
  • English Word Free Definition Freely; willingly.
  • English Word Free Definition Without charge; as, children admitted free.
  • English Word Free Definition 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.
  • English Word Free Definition To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
  • English Word Free Definition To frank.
  • English Word Free will Definition A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
  • English Word Free will Definition The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.
  • English Word Free-denizen Definition To make free.
  • English Word Free-hand Definition Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.
  • English Word Free-handed Definition Open-handed; liberal.
  • English Word Free-hearted Definition Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth.
  • English Word Free-liver Definition One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.
  • English Word Free-living Definition Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites.
  • English Word Free-love Definition The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.
  • English Word Free-lover Definition One who believes in or practices free-love.
  • English Word Free-martin Definition An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.
  • English Word Free-milling Definition Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
  • English Word Free-minded Definition Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.