Synonyms for unfree

Synonyms for (adj) unfree

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


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