People who are free:
— The home of the free and the brave.

synonym: free people.

Grant freedom to; free from confinement.

synonyms: liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen.

Roget 927a: be exempt etc. adj.. exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve etc. (forgive) 918; exonerate etc. (exculpate) 970; save the necessity.    ... show more

Roget 750: liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise^†; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver etc. 672; absolve etc. (acquit) 970.    unfetter etc. 751, untie etc. 43; loose etc. (disjoin) 44; loosen, relax; unbolt, unbar, unclose, uncork, unclog, unhand, unbind, unchain, unharness, unleash; disengage, disentangle; clear, extricate, unloose.    gain one's liberty, obtain one's liberty, acquire one's liberty etc. 748; get rid of, get clear of; deliver oneself from; shake off the yoke, slip the collar; break loose, break prison; tear asunder one's bonds, cast off trammels; escape etc. 671.    ... show more

Relieve from.

synonyms: disembarrass, rid.

Roget 705: be easy etc. adj.; go on smoothly, run smoothly; have full play etc. n.; go on all fours, run on all fours; obey the helm, work well.    flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream, go with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide; see one's way; have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands; walk over the course, win at a canter; make light of, make nothing of, make no bones of.    be at home in, make it look easy, do it with one's eyes closed, do it in one's sleep etc. (skillful) 698.    render easy etc. adj.; facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten, lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage; deobstruct^†, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate^†; humor etc. (aid) 707; lubricate etc. 332; relieve etc. 834.    leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open; give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the way, bridge over; permit etc. 760.    ... show more

Dutch: afhelpen, bevrijden, vrijmaken

Remove or force out from a position:
— He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble.

synonym: dislodge.

Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.

synonyms: exempt, relieve.

Make (information) available for publication.

synonym: release.

Free from obligations or duties.

synonym: discharge.

Dutch: ontladen, ontslaan

Free or remove obstruction from:
— Free a path across the cluttered floor.

synonym: disengage.

Let off the hook.

synonym: absolve.

Dutch: verlossen

Part with a possession or right.

synonyms: give up, release, relinquish, resign.

Dutch: laten

Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition.

synonyms: liberate, release.

Make (assets) available.

synonyms: release, unblock, unfreeze.

Not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint.

Roget 52: complete, entire; whole etc. 50; perfect etc. 650; full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary; solid, undivided; with all its parts; all-sided.    exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going; dead.    regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free; abundant etc. (sufficient) 639.    brimming; brimful, topful, topfull; chock full, choke full; as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated, crammed; replete etc. (redundant) 641; fraught, laden; full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged; heavy laden.    completing etc. v.; supplemental, supplementary; ascititious^†.    ... show more

Roget 600: voluntary, volitional, willful; free etc. 748; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient^†, volitive^†.    minded etc. (willing) 602; prepense etc. (predetermined) 611^†; intended etc. 620; autocratic; unbidden etc. (bid) etc. 741; spontaneous; original etc. (casual) 153; unconstrained.    ... show more

Roget 927a: exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released etc. v.; unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable.    ... show more

Unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion.

Costing nothing:
— Free admission.

synonyms: complimentary, costless, gratis, gratuitous.

Roget 815: cheap; low, low priced; moderate, reasonable; inexpensive, unexpensive^†; well worth the money, worth the money; magnifique et pas cher [Fr.]; good at the price, cheap at the price; dirt cheap, dog cheap; cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty; catchpenny; discounted etc. 813.    half-price, depreciated, unsalable.    gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing; costless, expenseless^†; without charge, not charged, untaxed; scotfree, shotfree^†, rent-free; free of cost, free of expense; honorary, unbought, unpaid.    ... show more

Roget 748: free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself.    in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented^†, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled.    unsubject^†, ungoverned, unenslaved^†, unenthralled^†, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined^†, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled.    unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional; absolute; discretionary etc. (optional) 600.    unassailed, unforced, uncompelled.    unbiassed^†, spontaneous.    free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage [Fr.], quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished^†.    exempt; freed etc. 750; freeborn; autonomous, freehold, allodial^†; gratis etc. 815; eleutherian^†.    unclaimed, going a begging.    ... show more

Polish: bezpłatny, darmowy, nieodpłatny

Not occupied or in use.

Not fixed in position:
— He pulled his arm free and ran.

synonym: detached.

Not held in servitude.

Not taken up by scheduled activities:
— A free hour between classes.

synonym: spare.

Completely wanting or lacking.

synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, innocent.

Not literal:
— A free translation of the poem.

synonyms: liberal, loose.

Roget 816: liberal, free, generous; charitable etc. (beneficent) 906; hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome; unsparing, ungrudging; unselfish; open handed, free handed, full handed; open hearted, large hearted, free hearted; munificent, princely.    overpaid.    ... show more

Roget 961: impure; unclean etc. (dirty) 653; not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque [Fr.], coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.    concupiscent, prurient, lickerish^†, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty.    unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish^†, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose.    adulterous, incestuous, bestial.    ... show more

Roget 44: disjoined etc. v.; discontinuous etc. 70; multipartite^†, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated etc. v.; insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft^†.    [capable of being cut] scissile [Chem], divisible, discerptible^†, partible, separable.    ... show more

Without restraint.

synonym: loose.