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Definition of free : 1. Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
2. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
3. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
4. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
5. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; - followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
6. Freely; willingly.
7. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; - followed by of.
8. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
9. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; - said of a government, institutions, etc.
10. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open- handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
11. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
12. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
13. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; - said of the will.
14. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
15. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
16. Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
17. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
18. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; - said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
19. To frank.
20. To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; - followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
21. To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.
22. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
23. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
24. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; - used in a bad sense.
25. Without charge; as, children admitted free.

Synonyms:

reposition, turn, shift, democratic, exhaust, unembellished, self-sufficient, poverty-stricken, abandoned, sleepy, unsupported, fallow, chuck up the sponge, the last of the big spenders, contribute, assuage, let go of, fall by the wayside, cease, rid, expel, unload, wanton, discharged, complete, at liberty, free-floating, unimprisoned, forgo, idle, footloose, dependence, secrete, melt, scanty, unimpeded, confined, blank, surplus, kick, warrant, rationalize, open, on the house, gratis, needy, overfamiliar, throw overboard, extricated, outspoken, free people, let someone go, apologize, handsome, charitable, empty, break out, assoil, unacquainted, waive, yield, with someone's compliments, dead, disconnected, void, take over, unconstrained, active, vociferous, hand over, rationalise, destitute, indigent, unblocked, unstinting, uncommitted, single, unreserved, isolated, impoverished, save, openhanded, present, fire, stark, palliate, surrender, presuming, foreswear, dispense with, easy come, easy go, dormant, self-governed, thaw, for nothing, ingenuous, self-governing, giving, muster out, extra, justify, throw in the towel, throw in, bounteous, enfranchise, give up, distribute, strike, concentrated, broad, autonomous, freehearted, candid, set-apart, leave office, spontaneous, paid, cede, unornamented, unclogged, you can't take it with you, discrete, alleviate, spare, seasonal, alkaloid, relinquish, let off, publish, unsparing, let go, uncaring, go off, set down, big, inoperative, salve, bountiful, bail out, unaffectionate, emphatic, unbosom, eject, off, part with, delivered, unloose, at large, still, on offer, flat out, unrestrained, alkaline, separate, frank, unobstructed, apologise, what you/they will, sluttish, bare, deserted, forward, charged, voluntary, sinless, superfluous, unstopped, innocuous, guiltless, lighten, vacant, dethaw, freeborn, aweigh, unsecured, freestanding, freed, willing, withdraw, bust out, put out, liberal, drop by the wayside, public, disembarrass, quit, unregulated, emphatically, vacate, underemployed, he who pays the piper calls the tune, anaerobic, pointed, have money to burn, self-supporting, free of, directly, give, discontinue, immodest, unpaid, bold, wobbly, chemical equation, unthaw, unfixed, unloosen, costless, restraint, large-minded, unselfish, bleak, corrosive, available, uninhabited, submit, bring out, degage, a fool and his money (are soon parted), subject, dislodge, outright, inexact, subdued, out-of-school, self-reliant, slaveless, all expenses paid, latent, baldly, trim, redundant, relax, free-spoken, self-ruling, informal, shut, separated, allay, impeccant, unused, spendthrift, devoid, on the loose, reconcile, usable, aerobic, light, help, chemical, hand, allow, unattached, freehanded, be burning a hole in your pocket, fastened, clean-handed, going, shrive, unconfined, munificent, drop off, unaffixed, drop out, familiar, cleared, free-soil, off-duty, supererogatory, bail, quiet, plain, unhampered, uncompelled, lay off, fixed, let out, n/c, unfreeze, untrammeled, derelict, unoccupied, promiscuous, hollow, supernumerary, dispatch, complimentary, sovereign, uncrowded, issue, breakout, abandon, easy, escaped, money, precise, bighearted, resign, willful, imprisoned, credit history, innocent, man-to-man, dissolve, escapee, step down, undone, unclosed, forfeit, bump, excess, unconnected, catalytic, barren, forego, by choice, atrip, scot-free, unburdened, independent, remedy, uninvolved, owned, necessitous, courtesy, unforced, renounce, desolate, inert, stop, drop, gratuitous, detached, put down, fulsome, salvage, volitional, unblock, vocal, accessible

unbound, unchain, disentwined, unleashed, unfettered, ease, reprieved, emancipated, disentwine, disencumbered, disencumber, unrestricted, wide-open, disentangled, untie, unfetter, disentangle, unleash, untied, released, liberated, unbind, unchained

disengaged

generous, lavish

disengage, let loose, set free, emancipate, deliver

loose, lax, nihilistic, slack, tolerant, anarchic

exonerate, forgive, absolve, clear, exculpate, acquit, excuse, dismiss, defray, pardon, discharge, release, vindicate, liberate

license, dispel, relieve, permit, privilege, reprieve, except, exempt, stay

loosen, slacken

Usage examples:

• " It isn't free to me. - "The Young Musician or, Fighting His Way", Horatio Alger.
• Am I really free? - "Bonnie Prince Charlie A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden", G. A. Henty.
• But when that's over, our free land is done. - "Lady Merton, Colonist", Mrs. Humphry Ward.