UNFREE Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

unfree

adjective

Definition of unfree

as in dependent

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Recent Examples of unfree Other places had other forms of unfree or bonded labor. — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026 Until a few years ago, millions of Iranians repeatedly voted in the country’s mostly unfree elections, hoping that regime insiders could pave a path for reform. — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026 His brother, god of hunting and tracking, is caught in the cruel paradox of parole — somehow still unfree and searching for liberty and purpose, yearning for the seeming escape of his own car on the open road, always in danger of being hunted down himself. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025 The electoral defeat of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary in April reminded the world that despite having rewritten the rules of the political game in his own favor, a strongman can lose, even in an unfree and unfair election. — Ian Bremmer, Time, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for unfree

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Some states have started to broaden these rules to allow candidates to use campaign funds for other dependent care, too, like elder care.

— Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Car companies and their supply chains are particularly dependent on the movement of goods through USMCA and have been in the crosshairs of the administration's tariff policy.

— Emily Chang, ABC News, 1 July 2026

Definition of dependent

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Burnout now consumes American physicians, who are overworked, nonautonomous and adrift without help.

— Aaron Rothstein, wsj.com, 3 Apr. 2023
The absence of access for nonautonomous conferences like the American Athletic Conference has also been a point of contention.

— Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 14 May 2021

Definition of nonautonomous

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That if you were deemed, as an enslaved person, if you were deemed troublesome or in some way unwanted, you would literally be sold down the river from the more northern states to the deeper south where you would potentially be treated even worse.

— Dana Taylor, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Thomas Jefferson — along with Robert Hemmings, an enslaved teenager who attended to his daily needs — arrived in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress in May 1776.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

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