Synonyms: free, free people
Definition: people who are free
Usage: the home of the free and the brave
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: free, release, unblock, unfreeze
Definition: make (assets) available
Usage: release the holdings in the dictator's bank account
Definition: circulate or distribute or equip with
Usage: issue a new uniform to the children; supply blankets for the beds
Synonyms: free, justify, absolve
Definition: let off the hook
Usage: I absolve you from this responsibility
Similar words: forgive
Definition: stop blaming or grant forgiveness
Usage: I forgave him his infidelity; She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday
Definition: remove or force out from a position
Usage: The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums; He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble
Similar words: remove, withdraw, take, take away
Definition: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
Usage: remove a threat; remove a wrapper; Remove the dirty dishes from the table; take the gun from your pocket; This machine withdraws heat from the environment
Synonyms: free, release, liberate
Definition: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
Similar words: bring forth, generate
Definition: bring into existence
Usage: The new manager generated a lot of problems; The computer bug generated chaos in the office; The computer generated this image; The earthquake generated a tsunami
Synonyms: give up, free, release, relinquish, resign
Definition: part with a possession or right
Usage: I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest; resign a claim to the throne
Similar words: hand, give, reach, pass, pass on, turn over
Definition: place into the hands or custody of
Usage: hand me the spoon, please; Turn the files over to me, please; He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers
Definition: make (information) available for publication
Usage: release the list with the names of the prisoners
Definition: circulate or distribute or equip with
Usage: issue a new uniform to the children; supply blankets for the beds
Synonyms: liberal, loose, free
Definition: not literal
Usage: a loose interpretation of what she had been told; a free translation of the poem
Similar words: inexact
Definition: not exact
Synonyms: free, destitute, devoid, barren, innocent
Definition: completely wanting or lacking
Usage: writing barren of insight; young recruits destitute of experience; innocent of literary merit; the sentence was devoid of meaning
Similar words: nonexistent
Definition: not having existence or being or actuality
Usage: chimeras are nonexistent
Synonyms: free
Definition: unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
Usage: free expansion; free oxygen; a free electron
Similar words: liberated
Definition: (of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination
Similar words: unbound
Definition: not held in chemical or physical combination
Definition: not fixed in position
Usage: the detached shutter fell on him; he pulled his arm free and ran
Similar words: unfixed
Definition: not firmly placed or set or fastened
Synonyms: free
Definition: able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
Usage: free enterprise; 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
Similar words: escaped, loose, at large, on the loose
Definition: having escaped, especially from confinement
Usage: a convict still at large; searching for two escaped prisoners; dogs loose on the streets; criminals on the loose in the neighborhood
Similar words: autonomous, sovereign, self-governing, independent
Definition: (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
Usage: an autonomous judiciary; a sovereign state
Similar words: uncommitted, available
Definition: not busy; not otherwise committed
Usage: he was not available for comment; he was available and willing to accompany her
Definition: (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom
Similar words: clear
Definition: free from contact or proximity or connection
Usage: we were clear of the danger; the ship was clear of the reef
Similar words: emancipated, liberated
Definition: free from traditional social restraints
Usage: an emancipated young woman pursuing her career; a liberated lifestyle
Similar words: footloose
Definition: free to go or do as one pleases
Usage: Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on; a footloose young man eager to see the big city
Similar words: out-of-school
Definition: not attending school and therefore free to work
Usage: opportunities for out-of-school youth
Similar words: unconfined, unimprisoned
Definition: free from confinement or physical restraint
Similar words: unconstrained
Definition: free from constraint
Usage: he was unconstrained by any of the sanctions of polite society; the dog was unconstrained; idle, unconstrained gossip
Similar words: unhampered
Definition: not held in check or subject to control
Usage: unhampered dissemination of news; this would give black people the opportunity to live unhampered by racism
Similar words: unrestricted
Definition: free of restrictions on conduct
Usage: I had unrestricted access
Synonyms: free
Definition: not held in servitude
Usage: after the Civil War he was a free man
Similar words: freeborn
Definition: born free of free parents
Similar words: free-soil, non-slave, slaveless
Definition: where slavery was prohibited
Usage: a free-soil state
Synonyms: free
Definition: not occupied or in use
Usage: a free locker; a free lane
Similar words: unoccupied
Definition: not held or filled or in use
Usage: an unoccupied telephone booth; unoccupied hours
Definition: not taken up by scheduled activities
Usage: a free hour between classes; spare time on my hands
Similar words: unoccupied
Definition: not held or filled or in use
Usage: an unoccupied telephone booth; unoccupied hours
Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis, gratuitous
Definition: costing nothing
Usage: complimentary tickets; free admission