unfree
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈfriː/
- Most importantly, so long as its consciousness was imposed from without, the working class remained intellectually dominated and thus unfree.
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Watch on YouTubeMost of our lives are spent in unfree workplaces.
- Most of our lives are spent in unfree workplaces.
- How can African women be absolutely free in such an unfree environment?
- And don't you feel unfree, you know, like when you're, you're struggling with the language.
- So they're, they're a slave in that context, but they're, so they're unfree.
- And that's the difference between democracy and unfree world, because democracy can offer the sustainable growth.
- How much are they essentially feeling unfree?
Examples
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A country where the government controls the capital markets tends to have a very unfree economy.
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The remaining 80 percent were divided about equally between the partly free and the decidedly unfree states.
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How can African women be absolutely free in such an unfree environment?
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Most of our lives are spent in unfree workplaces.
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North America taught the world that free people will prevail over less or completely unfree peoples.
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In a major speech in January 2010, Clinton drew analogies between the Iron Curtain and the free and unfree Internet.
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The pie chart for the Middle East/North Africa—the core Islamic region—shows the most unfree area in the world.
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Many citizens advocate for democracy because they feel trapped in an unfree society.
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In an unfree state, people often lack basic rights and freedoms.
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The workers protested against the unfree conditions imposed by their employer.
Synonyms
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A person who is still under another person's legal control, for example a child
A place that an enemy still controls
Antonyms
How Unfree
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfree is made of the parts un- meaning 'not' and free meaning 'able to act or go where you want' or 'not controlled'. So unfree means 'not free', controlled by someone else or without choice.