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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | free |
| Synonyms: | easygoing, free and easy, go-as-you-please, loose, unattached, uncommitted, unengaged |
| Main Entry: | restless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not content; moving about |
| Synonyms: | active, agitated, antsy*, anxious, bundle of nerves, bustling, changeable, disturbed, edgy, fidgeting, fidgety, fitful, footloose, fretful, hurried, ill at ease, inconstant, intermittent, irresolute, itchy, jumpy, nervous, nomadic, on edge, perturbed, restive, roving, sleepless, spasmodic, strung out, tossing and turning, transient, troubled, turbulent, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestful, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, wandering, worried |
| Notes: | restive means impatient or fidgety under pressure or restraint; restless is being uneasy, unquiet, or unable to relax or rest |
| Antonyms: | agitated, jumpy, nervous, restive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unattached |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected, free |
| Synonyms: | apart, at liberty, autonomous, available, detached, fancy-free, footloose, independent, off the hook, on one's own, separate, single, unaffiliated, uncommited, unconnected, uninvolved, unmarried |
| Main Entry: | uninhibited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | free and easy; without restraint |
| Synonyms: | audacious, candid, cut loose, expansive, fancy-free, footloose, frank, free, hanging out, informal, instinctive, liberated, natural, no holds barred, off the cuff, open, relaxed, spontaneous, unbridled, unchecked, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, ungoverned, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unself-conscious, unsuppressed |
| Antonyms: | careful, inhibited, modest, shy |
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsettled; vagrant |
| Synonyms: | aimless, destitute, down-and-out, drifting, errant, fancy-free, fly-by-night, footloose, idle, itinerant, itinerate, journeying, mendicant, migratory, moving, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, rambling, roaming, rootless, roving, sauntering, shifting, shiftless, straggling, stray, strolling, transient, travelling, unsettled, wandering, wayfaring, wayward |
| Notes: | a vagabond refers to a person who leads a carefree, roaming existence; a vagrant ekes out a living by begging and is often considered a nuisance |
| Antonyms: | inhabiting, settled |
| Main Entry: | fancy-free |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | carefree |
| Synonyms: | footloose, happy-go-lucky, independent, unattached, without commitments, without ties |
| Main Entry: | free and easy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relaxed |
| Synonyms: | boon, carefree, casual, convivial, easygoing, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, free as a bird, free as the wind, informal, loose, natural, nonformal, unforced, unstudied |
| Antonyms: | formal |
| Main Entry: | spouseless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | single |
| Synonyms: | bachelor, companionless, divorced, eligible, fancy-free, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, free, living alone, lone, loner, separated, sole, solo, unattached, unfettered, unmarried, unwed |
| Main Entry: | unquiet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restless |
| Synonyms: | active, agitated, antsy*, anxious, bundle of nerves, bustling, changeable, disturbed, edgy, fidgeting, fidgety, fitful, footloose, fretful, hurried, ill at ease, inconstant, intermittent, irresolute, itchy, jumpy, nervous, nomadic, on edge, perturbed, restive, roving, sleepless, spasmodic, strung out, tossing and turning, transient, troubled, turbulent, uneasy, unpeaceful, unrestful, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, wandering, worried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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