Definitions for freest

• Definition
• Anagrams (98)

freest fre·est

Spelling: [free-ist]

IPA: /ˈfri ɪst/

Freest is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in freest (eefrst).

Definitions for freest

Idioms

1. for free, Informal. without charge:
2. free and clear, Law. without any encumbrance, as a lien or mortgage:
3. free and easy, unrestrained; casual; informal. excessively or inappropriately casual; presumptuous.
4. make free with, to use as one's own; help oneself to: to treat with too much familiarity; take liberties with.
5. set free, to release; liberate; free:
6. with a free hand, generously; freely; openhandedly:

adverb

1. in a free manner; freely.
2. Nautical. away from the wind, so that a sailing vessel need not be close-hauled:

adjective

1. superlative of free.
2. enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery:
3. pertaining to or reserved for those who enjoy personal liberty:
4. existing under, characterized by, or possessing civil and political liberties that are, as a rule, constitutionally guaranteed by representative government:
5. enjoying political autonomy, as a people or country not under foreign rule; independent.
6. exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one's will, thought, choice, action, etc.; independent; unrestricted.
7. able to do something at will; at liberty:
8. clear of obstructions or obstacles, as a road or corridor:
9. not occupied or in use:
10. exempt or released from something specified that controls, restrains, burdens, etc. (usually followed by from or of): See also -free.
11. having immunity or being safe (usually followed by from):
12. provided without, or not subject to, a charge or payment:
13. given without consideration of a return or reward:
14. unimpeded, as motion or movement; easy, firm, or swift.
15. not held fast; loose; unattached:
16. not joined to or in contact with something else:
17. acting without self-restraint or reserve:
18. ready or generous in giving; liberal; lavish:
19. given readily or in profusion; unstinted.
20. frank and open; unconstrained, unceremonious, or familiar.
21. unrestrained by decency; loose or licentious:
22. not subject to special regulations, restrictions, duties, etc.:
23. of, relating to, or characterized by free enterprise:
24. that may be used by or is open to all:
25. engaged in by all present; general:
26. not literal, as a translation, adaptation, or the like; loose.
27. uncombined chemically:
28. traveling without power; under no force except that of gravity or inertia:
29. Phonetics. (of a vowel) situated in an open syllable (opposed to checked).
30. at liberty to enter and enjoy at will (usually followed by of):
31. not subject to rules, set forms, etc.:
32. easily worked, as stone, land, etc.
33. Mathematics. (of a vector) having specified magnitude and direction but no specified initial point. Compare bound1 (def 9).
34. Also, large. Nautical. (of a wind) nearly on the quarter, so that a sailing vessel may sail free.
35. not containing a specified substance (usually followed by of or from): See also -free.
36. (of a linguistic form) occurring as an independent construction, without necessary combination with other forms, as most words. Compare bound1 (def 11).
37. without cost, payment, or charge.

Verb phrases

1. free up, to release, as from restrictions: to disentangle:

verb (used with object)

1. to make free; set at liberty; release from bondage, imprisonment, or restraint.
2. to exempt or deliver (usually followed by from).
3. to relieve or rid (usually followed by of):
4. to disengage; clear (usually followed by from or of).

Origin of freest

before 900; Middle English fre, Old English frēo; cognate with Gothic freis, Old High German frī (German frei), Dutch vrij, Sanskrit priyá- dear. Cf. friend,

Examples for freest

This individualism has had the freest play, and we are not likely to lose all that it has given us.

And it gives us the freest government anywhere in the galaxy.

“We are the freest, least-taxed country ever,” he continues.

Meanwhile, South Korea is both the thirty-seventh freest country in the world and the thirteenth richest.

Poetry is like all art, difficult even in its freest interval.

In the freest countries, people live about twenty years longer, on average, than people in the least free countries.

Living in Moscow you can almost kid yourself you live in the freest, hippest, edgiest city on earth.

Love is always truest and sweetest and noblest where it is freest.

The real service to democracy is the fullest, freest expression of talent.

Unions represent some of the freest institutions in this land.