A democrat is a free citizen who yields to the will of the majority.
Source: tatoeba (1774)
Free
//fɹiː//
Synonyms for "free" (582 found)
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Closest matches (117)
liberateabsolveclearcomplimentarycostlessdetacheddislodgeemancipatedexemptfootloosefreebornliberalliberatedloosemanumitreleaseridspareunblockunbound
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uncommittedunconstrainedunhamperedunoccupiedunrestrictedabandonedableaboveabsoluteaccessibleacquitadriftaffranchiseafloatafoot and lightheartedallayallowedamnestyapproachablearbitraryartlessas a giftas our guestat largeat leisureat libertyat loose endsat willaudaciousautarchicautarkicautonomousavailableaweighbail outbaldbarebigheartedbluffbluntbounteousbountifulbreak loosebreak outbroadbrusquecandidcast offcasualcharitablecleansecleanse awayclear ofclearedcommunicativeconversablecut loosedebaucheddecontaminatedeliverdelivereddemocraticdemonstrativedeobstructdeserteddestigmatizedestitutedetachdiffusedirectdisabusedisburdendischargedisclosediscloseddiscretionaldiscretionarydisembarrassdisembroildisencumber
Suffix(1 words)
Prefix(1 words)
Strong matches (174)
disengagedisengageddisentangledisenthralldisinvolvedisjoindismissdispense fromdispense withdispersedissipateddissolutedoffdownrighteaseease offeasyeasygoingeffusiveelective
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eleemosynaryemancipateemptyenfranchiseenfranchisedescapedexceptexculpateexcuseexemplifyexempt fromexonerateexpansiveexpenselessexplicitexposeexposedextraextractextremityextricateextricatedextrovertedfairfallowfamiliarfastfetterlessfledfloatingflownfootloose and fancy-freefor freefor lovefor nothingfor the askingforgiveforsakenforthcomingforthrightfrankfrankheartedfree and easyfree as airfree for nothingfree fromfree gratisfree offree of chargefree of costfree soilfree spokenfree upfree willfree-bornfree-speakingfree-spokenfree-tonguedfreebiefreedfreehandedfreeheartedfreelyfugitivefurloughgallantgaygenerousgenuineget outgiftlikegive absolutiongive dispensation fromgive releasegive respitegivengivinggodforsakengossipygraciousgrant amnesty togrant immunitygrant remissiongratisgratuitousgratuitouslygreatheartedhandsomeheart-to-hearthonesthospitablehouseidlein the clearindependentindividualisticinformalingenuousintermitjoblessjustifylargelargeheartedlavishleisureleisuredlet golet looselet offlet outlet uplibertylicentiouslightheartedlooselyloosenlumpenmagnanimousmanifestmunificentnakednaturalnewsynonmandatory
Prefix(1 words)
Adjective(11 words)
Adverb(3 words)
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(5 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (291)
Adjective(16 words)
nonprosoffoff dutyoff workofferedon looseon oneon paroleon the houseon the looseopenopen-handedopenhandedopenheartedopenlyoptionalotioseoutout ofout of employ
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out of harnessout of schoolout of workoutgoingoutrightoutspokenpardonparolepatefypermittedplainplain spokenplain-spokenprincelyprofferedprofligateprofusepublicpurgepurge awayquash the chargequitquit ofrakehellrakehellishrakehellyrakishransomrecoverredeemredeemedrelaxrelaxedreleasedrelieveremiseremitremovereprieverescuerescuedretiredretrieverevealricketyrid ofroundrunawaysalvagesavesave the necessityscatterscot freescot-freeself governingself-actingself-activeself-determinedself-determiningself-directingself-governedself-governingself-revealingself-revelatorysemiretiredseparateset at largeset at libertyset freeshakyshed ofshriveshut ofsinceresingleslackslack offslackensmoothsociablesovereignspontaneousspringsprungstintlessstraightstraight outstraight-outstraightforwardsuspendtake offtalkativetear loosetenantlessto his heirstransparentunanchoredunaskedunattachedunbarunbesoughtunbiddenunbindunboltunboughtunbridledunbuckleunburdenunbuttonuncageuncalled foruncalled-foruncaseunceremoniousunchainunchaineduncheckedunclaspunclenchuncloguncloggedunclosedunclutchunclutteruncoerceduncompelledunconditionalunconditionedunconfineduncontrolleduncorkuncoveruncovereduncurtainundoundoneundrapeunemployableunemployedunencumberedunengagedunenslavedunequivocalunfastenunfastenedunfetterunfetteredunfilledunfixedunfoldunforcedunfoulunglueungrudgingunguardedunhiddenunhinderedunimpededunimprisonedunincarcerateduninfluenceduninhabiteduninhibiteduninviteduninvolvedunknotunlaceunlatchunleashunlockunlooseunloosenunmannedunmarriedunobstructedunpaid-forunpeopledunplugunpopulatedunpressuredunpromptedunravelunrepressedunrequestedunrequiredunreservedunreservedlyunrestrainedunreticentunrollunscrambleunsealunsecretiveunselfishunshackleunshackledunsheatheunshrinkingunshutunsilentunsnarlunsolicitedunsoughtunsparingunstaffedunstickunstintedunstintingunstopunstoppedunstrapunstuckunsuppresseduntakenuntangleuntaxeduntenanteduntendeduntieuntiedunusedunveilunwrapvacantvindicatevocalvoluntaryvolunteerweigh anchorwell out ofwest germanywhitewashwide openwide-openwildwillfulwith abandonwithdraw the chargewithoutwithout chargewithout restraintwithout stint
Verb(12 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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5 entriesderived
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50 entriesShowing 16 of 50 words.
Translations
711 translations across 122 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аҭацәы adj (without obligations)
Afrikaans
4 entries- vrye adj (not imprisoned)
- bevry verb (to make free, set at liberty)
- laat gaan verb (to make free, set at liberty)
- loslaat verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Albanian
4 entries- falas adj (unconstrained)
- lejuar adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- lirë adj (unobstructed)
- lirë (i/e) adj (not imprisoned)
Amharic
2 entries- ነፃ adj (not imprisoned)
- ነፃ adj (unconstrained)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐλεύθερος adj (not imprisoned)
Arabic
4 entries- بِدُونِ adj (without)
- بِغَيْرِ adj (without)
- حر adj (not imprisoned)
- حر adj (not imprisoned)
Armenian
4 entries- ազատ adj (not imprisoned)
- ազատ adj (unconstrained)
- ազատ adj (not in use)
- ազատ adj (without obligations)
Aromanian
1 entries- lefter adj (not imprisoned)
Assamese
3 entries- মুকলি adj (not imprisoned)
- মুকলি adj (unconstrained)
- মুকলি adj (unobstructed)
Asturian
2 entries- llibre adj (not imprisoned)
- llibre adj (unconstrained)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- azad adj (not imprisoned)
- azad adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- bağımsız adj (without obligations)
- boş adj (not in use)
Bambara
4 entries- hɔrɔn adj (not imprisoned)
- hɔrɔn adj (unconstrained)
- hɔrɔn adj (without obligations)
- hɔrɔn adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
Bashkir
4 entries- азат adj (not imprisoned)
- буш adj (not in use)
- буш adj (without obligations)
- бәйһеҙ adj (not imprisoned)
Basque
1 entries- aske adj (not imprisoned)
Belarusian
4 entries- во́льны adj (not imprisoned)
- свабо́дны adj (not imprisoned)
- вы́зваліць verb (to make free, set at liberty)
- вызваля́ць verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Bengali
2 entries- আজাদ adj (not imprisoned)
- মুক্ত adj (not imprisoned)
Bikol Central
1 entries- talingkas adj (not imprisoned)
Bulgarian
4 entries- безплатен adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- незает adj (not in use)
- неизползван adj (not in use)
- свобо́ден adj (not imprisoned)
Burmese
3 entries- လွတ်လပ် adj (without)
- အား adj (not in use)
- အား adj (without obligations)
Catalan
4 entries- desocupat adj (not in use)
- lliure adj (not imprisoned)
- lliure adj (unconstrained)
- lliure adj (unobstructed)
Central Kurdish
4 entries- ئازاد adj (not imprisoned)
- سەربەست adj (unconstrained)
- ڕزگار adj (not imprisoned)
- ڕزگار کردن verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 自由 adj (not imprisoned)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 空閒 /空閑 /空闲 adj (without obligations)
- 自由的 adj (not imprisoned)
- 自由的 adj (unconstrained)
- 自由的 adj (without obligations)
Chukchi
1 entries- эркуркэ adv (without needing to pay)
Czech
4 entries- prostý adj (without)
- svobodný adj (not imprisoned)
- svobodný adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- volný adj (not imprisoned)
Danish
4 entries- fri adj (not imprisoned)
- fri adj (unconstrained)
- fri adj (without obligations)
- fri adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
Dutch
4 entries- los adj (not imprisoned)
- los adj (unconstrained)
- loslopend adj (unconstrained)
- ongedwongen adj (without obligations)
Esperanto
4 entries- libera adj (not imprisoned)
- libera adj (unconstrained)
- libera adj (unobstructed)
- libera adj (without obligations)
Estonian
4 entries- piiramatu adj (unobstructed)
- prii adj (not imprisoned)
- prii adj (unconstrained)
- takistamatu adj (unobstructed)
Finnish
4 entries- auki adj (unobstructed)
- aukinainen adj (unobstructed)
- avoin adj (unobstructed)
- avoin adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
French
4 entries- disponible adj (not in use)
- libre adj (not imprisoned)
- libre adj (unconstrained)
- libre adj (mathematics: unconstrained)
Friulian
1 entries- libar adj (not imprisoned)
Galician
4 entries- ceibo adj (not imprisoned)
- libre adj (not imprisoned)
- libre adj (unconstrained)
- libre adj (without obligations)
Georgian
1 entries- თავისუფალი adj (not imprisoned)
German
4 entries- frank und frei adj (unconstrained)
- frei adj (not imprisoned)
- frei adj (unconstrained)
- frei adj (unobstructed)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 adj (not imprisoned)
- 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 adj (unconstrained)
Greek
4 entries- ανεμπόδιστος adj (unconstrained)
- ανεμπόδιστος adj (unobstructed)
- ελεύθερος adj (not imprisoned)
- ελεύθερος adj (unconstrained)
Gujarati
1 entries- નવરું adj (without obligations)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- lib adj (not imprisoned)
Hebrew
4 entries- בְּלְי adj (without)
- חָפְשִׁי adj (not imprisoned)
- חָפְשִׁי adj (without obligations)
- חָפְשִׁי adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
Hindi
4 entries- अपरमित adj (programming: not bound)
- असीम adj (programming: not bound)
- आज़ाद adj (not imprisoned)
- आज़ाद adj (unconstrained)
Hungarian
4 entries- szabad adj (not imprisoned)
- szabad adj (mathematics: unconstrained)
- szabad adj (without obligations)
- ingyen adv (without needing to pay)
Icelandic
2 entries- frjáls adj (not imprisoned)
- ókeypis adv (without needing to pay)
Ido
4 entries- libera adj (not imprisoned)
- libera adj (unconstrained)
- libera adj (unobstructed)
- libera adj (without obligations)
Indonesian
4 entries- bebas adj (not imprisoned)
- bebas adj (without)
- tanpa adj (without)
- cuma-cuma adv (without needing to pay)
Ingrian
1 entries- vappaa adj (not imprisoned)
Interlingua
4 entries- franc adj (unconstrained)
- franc adj (unobstructed)
- libere adj (not imprisoned)
- libere adj (unconstrained)
Irish
4 entries- gan adj (without)
- saor adj (not imprisoned)
- saor adj (unconstrained)
- saor adj (without obligations)
Istriot
1 entries- leîbaro adj (not imprisoned)
Italian
4 entries- brado adj (unconstrained)
- free adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- libero adj (not imprisoned)
- libero adj (unconstrained)
Japanese
4 entries- そのままの adj (unobstructed)
- 自由 adj (not imprisoned)
- 自由 adj (unconstrained)
- 自由 adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
Jarai
1 entries- rơngai adj (not imprisoned)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- fabal adv (without needing to pay)
Khmer
2 entries- សេរី adj (not imprisoned)
- ស្រស់ស្រាយ adj (unconstrained)
Korean
4 entries- 막힘없다 adj (unobstructed)
- 자유 adj (not imprisoned)
- 자유 adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- 자유롭다 adj (without obligations)
Latin
4 entries- līber adj (not imprisoned)
- līber adj (unconstrained)
- grātīs adv (without needing to pay)
- līberō verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Latvian
4 entries- brīvs adj (not imprisoned)
- brīvs adj (unconstrained)
- brīvs adj (not in use)
- brīvs adj (without obligations)
Leonese
1 entries- ḷḷibru adj (not imprisoned)
Lezgi
1 entries- азад adj (not imprisoned)
Limburgish
4 entries- vrie adj (not imprisoned)
- vrie adj (unconstrained)
- vrie adj (unobstructed)
- vrie adj (without obligations)
Lindu
1 entries- naloa adj (unconstrained)
Lithuanian
3 entries- laisvas adj (not imprisoned)
- nemokama adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- išlaisvinti verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Lombard
1 entries- liber adj (not imprisoned)
Low German
4 entries- free adj (not imprisoned)
- free adj (unconstrained)
- free adj (unobstructed)
- free adj (without)
Lower Sorbian
4 entries- lichy adj (unconstrained)
- lichy adj (unobstructed)
- lichy adj (without obligations)
- lichy adj (without)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- fräi adj (not imprisoned)
Macedonian
4 entries- без adj (without)
- бес adj (without)
- непречен adj (unobstructed)
- слободен adj (not imprisoned)
Malay
3 entries- bebas adj (not imprisoned)
- merdeka adj (unconstrained)
- tanpa adj (without)
Malayalam
4 entries- സ്വതന്ത്രം adj (not imprisoned)
- സ്വതന്ത്രം adj (unconstrained)
- സ്വതന്ത്രം adj (without obligations)
- സൗജന്യം adv (without needing to pay)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠰᡠᠯᡶᠠᠩᡤᠠ adj (not imprisoned)
Māori
4 entries- herekore adj (not imprisoned)
- māhorahora adj (unconstrained)
- māhorahora adj (unobstructed)
- māhorahora adj (without obligations)
Navajo
2 entries- tʼáadoo bą́ą́h ílíní da adv (without needing to pay)
- tʼáá jííkʼe adv (without needing to pay)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- na nafasi adj (without obligations)
Norman
4 entries- libre adj (not imprisoned)
- libre adj (unconstrained)
- libre adj (unobstructed)
- libre adj (not in use)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- aza adj (unconstrained)
- azad adj (not imprisoned)
- azad adj (without obligations)
- azad adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
Norwegian
4 entries- fri adj (not imprisoned)
- fri adj (unconstrained)
- fri adj (mathematics: unconstrained)
- fri adj (unobstructed)
Occitan
2 entries- liure adj (not imprisoned)
- desliurar verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Old English
4 entries- frēo adj (not imprisoned)
- frēo adj (without obligations)
- unċīepe adj (unconstrained)
- frēoġan verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Old Irish
3 entries- sóer adj (not imprisoned)
- sóer adj (unconstrained)
- sóer adj (without obligations)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- براقمق verb (to make free, set at liberty)
- صالمق verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Papiamentu
1 entries- liber adj (not imprisoned)
Persian
4 entries- آزاد adj (not imprisoned)
- آزاد adj (unconstrained)
- آزاد adj (not in use)
- بدون adj (without)
Piedmontese
1 entries- liber adj (not imprisoned)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- emsonst adv (without needing to pay)
Polish
4 entries- bez adj (without)
- swobodny adj (not imprisoned)
- swobodny adj (unconstrained)
- swobodny adj (unobstructed)
Portuguese
4 entries- desocupado adj (not in use)
- livre adj (not imprisoned)
- livre adj (unconstrained)
- livre adj (mathematics: unconstrained)
Quechua
2 entries- qasi adj (without obligations)
- qispi adj (not imprisoned)
Romagnol
1 entries- lèbar adj (not imprisoned)
Romanian
4 entries- fără adj (without)
- gratuit adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- liber adj (not imprisoned)
- liber adj (unconstrained)
Russian
4 entries- беспрепя́тственный adj (unobstructed)
- во́льный adj (not imprisoned)
- неза́нятый adj (not in use)
- свобо́дный adj (not imprisoned)
Sanskrit
3 entries- मुक्त adj (not imprisoned)
- स्वतन्त्र adj (not imprisoned)
- मुञ्चति verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- saor adj (not imprisoned)
- saor adj (unconstrained)
- saor adj (unobstructed)
- saor adj (without obligations)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bes adj (without)
- bez adj (without)
- bezobavezno adj (without obligations)
- neograničen adj (unconstrained)
Seychellois Creole
1 entries- lib adj (not imprisoned)
Sindhi
4 entries- آزاد adj (not imprisoned)
- خلاصو adj (unobstructed)
- فارِغ adj (without obligations)
- واندو adj (without obligations)
Slovak
4 entries- slobodný adj (not imprisoned)
- voľný adj (not imprisoned)
- oslobodiť verb (to make free, set at liberty)
- oslobodzovať verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Slovene
4 entries- prost adj (unobstructed)
- prost adj (without obligations)
- svoboden adj (not imprisoned)
- osvobajati verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Somali
1 entries- xor adj (not imprisoned)
Southern Altai
1 entries- эркин adj (not imprisoned)
Spanish
4 entries- desocupado adj (not in use)
- despejado adj (unobstructed)
- exento adj (without obligations)
- libre adj (not imprisoned)
Swahili
1 entries- huru adj (not imprisoned)
Swedish
4 entries- fri adj (not imprisoned)
- fri adj (unconstrained)
- fri adj (without obligations)
- fri adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
Tabasaran
1 entries- азад adj (not imprisoned)
Tagalog
4 entries- malaya adj (not imprisoned)
- gratis adv (without needing to pay)
- libre adv (without needing to pay)
- walang bayad adv (without needing to pay)
Tamil
1 entries- இலவசம் adv (without needing to pay)
Tarantino
1 entries- lìbbere adj (not imprisoned)
Tatar
4 entries- азат adj (not imprisoned)
- бәйсез adj (not imprisoned)
- ирекле adj (not imprisoned)
- хөр adj (not imprisoned)
Telugu
4 entries- అడ్డగించని adj (unobstructed)
- ఉచిత దిగుమతి adj (software: with very few limitations on distribution or improvement)
- ఉపయోగించని adj (not in use)
- నిబంధన లేని adj (without obligations)
Thai
4 entries- ว่าง adj (not in use)
- ว่าง adj (without obligations)
- อิสระ adj (not imprisoned)
- ฟรี adv (without needing to pay)
Turkish
4 entries- boş adj (not in use)
- engellenmemiş adj (unobstructed)
- gevşek adj (mycology: not attached to the stipe)
- serbest adj (unconstrained)
Udi
1 entries- азад adj (not imprisoned)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ві́льний adj (not imprisoned)
- свобі́дний adj (not imprisoned)
- безкоштовно adv (without needing to pay)
- задарма adv (without needing to pay)
Urdu
4 entries- آزاد adj (not imprisoned)
- سوتنتر adj (not imprisoned)
- مکت adj (not imprisoned)
- آزاد verb (to make free, set at liberty)
Uyghur
2 entries- ئەركىن adj (not imprisoned)
- ھۆر adj (not imprisoned)
Vietnamese
4 entries- rảnh adj (without obligations)
- rỗi adj (without obligations)
- tự do adj (not imprisoned)
- tự do adj (unconstrained)
Volapük
1 entries- libik adj (not imprisoned)
Walloon
1 entries- libe adj (not imprisoned)
Welsh
4 entries- rhydd adj (not imprisoned)
- rhydd adj (unconstrained)
- am ddim adv (without needing to pay)
- rhyddhau verb (to make free, set at liberty)
West-Frisian
2 entries- frij adj (not imprisoned)
- frijlitten adj (not imprisoned)
Yiddish
4 entries- פֿרײַ adj (not imprisoned)
- פֿרײַ adj (unconstrained)
- פֿרײַ adj (unobstructed)
- פֿרײַ adj (not in use)
Yucatec Maya
1 entries- jáalkʼab adj (not imprisoned)
Zazaki
4 entries- azad (diq) adj (not imprisoned)
- azad (diq) adj (not in use)
- berdos adj (without)
- bêkar adj (not in use)
Sample sentences
50 total sentences available.
He was a benevolent old man who volunteered to mow his neighbors' lawns for free.
Source: tatoeba (1998)
I feel that I am free.
Source: tatoeba (2158)
Freedom is not free.
Source: tatoeba (2159)
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