Antonyms of adj unfree

2 senses of unfree

Sense 1
unfree (vs. free) -- (held in servitude; "he was born of slave parents")

free (vs. unfree) -- (not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man")
        => freeborn -- (born free of free parents)
        => free-soil, slaveless, non-slave -- (where slavery was prohibited; "a free-soil state")

Sense 2
unfree (vs. free) -- (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)

free (vs. unfree) -- (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")
        => at large (predicate), escaped, loose, on the loose (predicate) -- (having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood")
        => autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereign -- ((of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state")
        => available, uncommitted -- (not busy; not otherwise committed; "he was not available for comment"; "he was available and willing to accompany her")
        => aweigh, atrip -- ((of an anchor) just clear of the bottom)
        => clear (predicate) -- (free from contact or proximity or connection; "we were clear of the danger"; "the ship was clear of the reef")
        => emancipated, liberated -- (free from traditional social restraints; "an emancipated young woman pursuing her career"; "a liberated lifestyle")
        => footloose -- (free to go or do as one pleases; "Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on"; "a footloose young man eager to see the big city")
        => out-of-school -- (not attending school and therefore free to work; "opportunities for out-of-school youth")
        => unconfined, unimprisoned -- (free from confinement or physical restraint)
        => unconstrained -- (free from constraint; "he was unconstrained by any of the sanctions of polite society"; "the dog was unconstrained"; "idle, unconstrained gossip")
        => unhampered -- (not held in check or subject to control; "unhampered dissemination of news"; "this would give black people the opportunity to live unhampered by racism")
        => unrestricted -- (free of restrictions on conduct; "I had unrestricted access")

Similarity of adj unfree

2 senses of unfree

Sense 1
unfree (vs. free) -- (held in servitude; "he was born of slave parents")
       => servile (prenominal) -- (relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants; "Brown's attempt at servile insurrection"; "the servile wars of Sicily"; "servile work")
       => slaveholding -- (allowing slavery; "the slaveholding South")
          Also See-> unfree#2

Sense 2
unfree (vs. free) -- (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)
       => adscript, adscripted -- ((used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner; "an adscript serf")
       => apprenticed, articled, bound, indentured -- (bound by contract)
       => at bay (predicate), cornered, trapped, treed -- (forced to turn and face attackers; "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal")
       => captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed -- (being in captivity)
       => entangled -- (involved in difficulties)
       => nonautonomous, nonsovereign -- ((of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces)
       => prisonlike -- (resembling a prison)
       => serflike -- (like someone in servitude)
          Also See-> bound#1; confined#2; dependent#1; restricted#1

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