1. Not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
   "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"; "free enterprise"; "a free port"
    
2. Costing nothing
   "free admission";
   - complimentary, costless, gratis, gratuitous, courtesy
    
3. Not held in servitude
   "after the Civil War he was a free man"
    
4. Not occupied or in use
   "a free locker"; "a free lane"
    
5. Not fixed in position
   "he pulled his arm free and ran";
   - detached
    
6. Not taken up by scheduled activities
   "a free hour between classes";
   - spare
    
7. Completely wanting or lacking
   "writing free of insight";
   - barren, destitute, devoid, innocent, empty
    
8. Not literal
   "a free translation of the poem";
   - loose, liberal
    
9. (physics) unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
   "a free electron"; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"

1. Grant freedom to; free from confinement
   "The activists worked to free the political prisoners";
   - liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose
    
2. Relieve from
   "free the house of pests";
   - rid, disembarrass
    
3. Release from obligations or duties
   "The court freed the defendant of all charges";
   - discharge
    
4. Remove obstruction from
   "free a path across the cluttered floor";
   - disengage
    
5. Remove or force out from a position
   "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble";
   - dislodge
    
6. Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
   "She freed me from the exam";
   - exempt, relieve
    
7. Make (information) available for publication
   "The government freed the classified documents";
   - release
    
8. Let off the hook
   "I free you from this responsibility";
   - absolve
    
9. Part with a possession or right
   "He freed himself of all his worldly possessions";
   - release, relinquish, resign, give up
    
10. Make (assets) available
    "free the holdings in the dictator's bank account";
    - unblock, unfreeze, release
     
11. (chemistry) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
    "The experiment freed hydrogen gas";
    - release, liberate

1. Without restraint
   "cows in India are running free";
   - loose

1. People who are free
   "the home of the free and the brave";
   - free people

Derived forms: freed, freeing, frees, freest, freer

See also: at large, atrip, autonomous, available, aweigh, clear, emancipated, escaped, footloose, freeborn, freedom, free-soil, independent, inexact, inexistent [rare], liberated, loose, nonexistent, non-slave, on the loose, out-of-school, self-governing, slaveless, sovereign, unbound, uncommitted, unconfined, unconstrained, unfixed, unhampered, unimprisoned, unoccupied, unpaid, unrestrained, unrestricted

Type of: act, alter, bring forth, change, forgive, generate, give, hand, issue, modify, move, pardon, pass, pass on, people, reach, remove, supply, take, take away, turn over, withdraw

Antonym: bound, confine, freeze, unfree

Encyclopedia: Free, Peter