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prepared
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???p??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p???p??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Hyphenation: pre?pared
Adjective
prepared (comparative more prepared, superlative most prepared)
- (followed by the preposition to) Disposed, willing, ready (to do something).
- The journalist interviewed an eye-witness who was not prepared to disclose his identity.
Hyponyms
- well-prepared
Translations
Verb
prepared
- simple past tense and past participle of prepare
References
- prepared at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- dapperer
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free
English
Etymology
From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English fr?o (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *fr?, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“dear, beloved”), from *preyH- (“to love, please”). Related to friend. Cognate with West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”), Sanskrit ????? (priyá).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").
The verb comes from Middle English freen, freo?en, from Old English fr?on, fr?o?an (“to free; make free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frij?n, from Proto-Germanic *frij?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?, IPA(key): /f?i?/, [f??i?]
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophone: three (with th-fronting)
Adjective
free (comparative freer, superlative freest)
- (social) Unconstrained.
- 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, scene i:
- Quickly, spirit! / Thou shalt ere long be free.
- Synonyms: unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered
- Antonyms: constrained, restricted
- Not imprisoned or enslaved.
- Antonyms: bound, enslaved, imprisoned
- Unconstrained by timidity or distrust
- Synonyms: unreserved, frank, communicative
- Generous; liberal.
- (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
- Without obligations.
- Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.
- Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
- (software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
- Synonym: libre
- Antonym: proprietary
- (software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
- 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, scene i:
- Obtainable without any payment.
- Synonyms: free of charge, gratis
- (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) complimentary
- (abstract) Unconstrained.
- (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
- (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.
- Antonym: bound
- (programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
- Synonym: unbound
- Antonym: bound
- (linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
- (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
- (physical) Unconstrained.
- Unobstructed, without blockages.
- Synonyms: clear, unobstructed
- Antonyms: blocked, obstructed
- Unattached or uncombined.
- Synonyms: loose, unfastened; see also Thesaurus:loose
- Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
- (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.
- Unobstructed, without blockages.
- Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
- Synonym: without
- (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
- (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
- (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
- (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
Antonyms
- unfree
Hyponyms
- -free
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adverb
free (comparative more free, superlative most free)
- Without needing to pay.
- Synonyms: for free, for nothing
- (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
Translations
Verb
free (third-person singular simple present frees, present participle freeing, simple past and past participle freed)
- (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.
- (transitive) To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564:
- Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil."
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564:
Derived terms
- befree
Synonyms
- befree
- emancipate
- let loose
- liberate
- manumit
- release
- unchain
- unfetter
- unshackle
Translations
Noun
free (plural frees)
- (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
- 2006, [1]:
- Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.
- 2006, [1]:
- free transfer
- (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
- (swimming) the freestyle stroke
Translations
References
Anagrams
- feer, fere, reef
Galician
Verb
free
- first-person singular present subjunctive of frear
- third-person singular present subjunctive of frear
Low German
Alternative forms
- frie (more common)
Etymology
From Middle Low German vrîe, variant of vrî, from Old Saxon fr?, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *prey (“new”). Compare Dutch vrij, West Frisian frij, English free, German frei.
Adjective
free (comparative fre'er, superlative freest)
- (rather rare) free
Declension
Derived terms
- Freeheit
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