English Explanatory Dictionary

unfree

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Not free; lacking freedom, especially (historical) of a tenant who was bound to a manor.
noun
  1. A person lacking freedom, such as a tenant bound to a manor.

Word forms

unfree more unfree unfreer unfree-er most unfree unfreest unfree-est unfrees

Etymology

From Middle English unfre, from Old English [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *unfrī; cognates include Middle High German unfrī (German unfrei), Middle Low German unvrī, Middle Dutch onvri (Dutch onvrij). By surface analysis, un- + free.

Related words

nonfree
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