free

Adverb

• without restraint
  • cows in India are running loose
    

Noun

• people who are free
  • the home of the free and the brave
    

Verb

• make (assets) available
  • release the holdings in the dictator's bank account
    

• release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• part with a possession or right
  • I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest
    
  • resign a claim to the throne
    

• let off the hook
  • I absolve you from this responsibility
    

• free or remove obstruction from
  • free a path across the cluttered floor
    

• free from obligations or duties

• make (information) available for publication
  • release the list with the names of the prisoners
    

• grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
  • She exempted me from the exam
    

• remove or force out from a position
  • 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
    

• relieve from
  • Rid the house of pests
    

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

Adjective

• not literal
  • a loose interpretation of what she had been told
    
  • a free translation of the poem
    

• completely wanting or lacking
  • writing barren of insight
    
  • young recruits destitute of experience
    
  • innocent of literary merit
    
  • the sentence was devoid of meaning
    

• not taken up by scheduled activities
  • a free hour between classes
    
  • spare time on my hands
    

• not held in servitude
  • after the Civil War he was a free man
    

• not fixed in position
  • the detached shutter fell on him
    
  • he pulled his arm free and ran
    

• not occupied or in use
  • a free locker
    
  • a free lane
    

• costing nothing
  • complimentary tickets
    
  • free admission
    

• unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
  • free expansion
    
  • free oxygen
    
  • a free electron
    

• able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
  • 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  loose , free people , unblock , unfreeze , release , liberate , relinquish , resign , give up , absolve , justify , disengage , discharge , exempt , relieve , dislodge , rid , disembarrass , unloose , unloosen , liberal , barren , destitute , devoid , innocent , spare , detached , complimentary , costless , grat
• Antonyms: 
  freeze , block , immobilize , immobilise , blame , fault , obstruct , obturate , impede , occlude , jam , close up , enforce , implement , apply , lodge , wedge , stick , deposit , confine , detain , unfree , bound