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UNFREE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hampered and not free; not able to act at will
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Held in servitude
Example:
he was born of slave parents
Classified under:
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)
