Synonyms: unfree
Definition: hampered and not free; not able to act at will
Similar words: adscript, adscripted
Definition: (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner
Usage: an adscript serf
Similar words: apprenticed, articled, bound, indentured
Definition: bound by contract
Similar words: at bay, trapped, treed, cornered
Definition: forced to turn and face attackers
Usage: a stag at bay; she had me cornered between the porch and her car; like a trapped animal
Similar words: confined, jailed, imprisoned, captive
Definition: being in captivity
Similar words: entangled
Definition: involved in difficulties
Similar words: nonautonomous, nonsovereign
Definition: (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces
Similar words: prisonlike
Definition: resembling a prison
Similar words: serflike
Definition: like someone in servitude
Synonyms: unfree
Definition: held in servitude
Usage: he was born of slave parents
Similar words: servile
Definition: relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
Usage: Brown's attempt at servile insurrection; the servile wars of Sicily; servile work
Similar words: slaveholding
Definition: allowing slavery
Usage: the slaveholding South