UNFREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfree mean? 

• UNFREE (adjective)
  The adjective UNFREE has 2 senses:

1. held in servitude

2. hampered and not free; not able to act at will

  Familiarity information: UNFREE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFREE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Held in servitude

Context example:

he was born of slave parents

Similar:

servile (relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants)

slaveholding (allowing slavery)

Also:

unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)

Antonym:

free (not held in servitude)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hampered and not free; not able to act at will

Similar:

adscript; adscripted ((used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner)

apprenticed; articled; bound; indentured (bound by contract)

at bay; cornered; trapped; treed (forced to turn and face attackers)

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:

bound (confined by bonds)

confined (not free to move about)

dependent (relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed)

restricted (subject to restriction or subjected to restriction)

Attribute:

freedom (the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints)

Antonym:

free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)