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heart-free

heart-free

7.4
Does not feel strong love or worry
  • adjective
translation icon : libre de ataduras emocionales
  • She felt heart-free after ending the toxic relationship.

Examples

  • He wandered through life heart-free and open to every new adventure.

  • You seem so heart-free today!

  • After the breakup, she was determined to remain heart-free for a while.

  • She felt heart-free after letting go of all her worries.

  • He wandered through life heart-free and open to every new adventure.

  • After the breakup, she was determined to remain heart-free for a while.

  • She felt heart-free after letting go of all her worries.

Synonyms

carefree
vsheart-free
41 2.9

Not feeling worried or responsible

focuses on emotional detachment rather than simply lacking worry
fancy-free
vsheart-free
6 6.8

Not having responsibilities or ties and free to do what you want

focuses on lack of emotional attachment rather than absence of duties
untroubled
vsheart-free
4 3.5

Calm and not worried about problems

emphasizes lack of emotional attachment rather than calmness

Antonyms

3.7

Feeling close to someone or something

3.8

Feeling very weighed down by work, problems, or responsibilities

How Detached

heart-free
7.4
indifferent
46 4.4
untroubled
4 3.5
concerned
2.2
attached
3.7

Surface Forms

heart-free positive

Morphology

heart-free = heart + free (transparent) = heart + free

The sense is a straightforward combination of 'heart' + 'free' meaning 'free from emotional involvement', which learners can infer from the components.

Etymology

Heart-free comes from joining heart ('feelings') and free ('not tied'), so to be heart-free is to have no emotional ties or burdens; think of a bird flying free and open to new things.