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Antonyms for fancy free
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : fan-see-free |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæn siˈfri |
- ambiguous
- barred
- blocked
- bound
- busy
- careful
- closed
- confined
- costly
- definite
- enslaved
- expensive
- fixed
- high-priced
- hindered
- inhabiting
- inhibited
- limited
- mean
- modest
- niggardly
- occupied
- permanent
- prevented
- priced
- reserved
- restrained
- restricted
- scheduled
- settled
- shy
- strict
- suppressed
- tied-up
- tight-fisted
- unclear
- unmoving
- vague
Definition of fancy free
Origin :- "free from the trammels of love," 1580s, from fancy (n.) + free (adj.).
- As in unattached : adj disconnected, free
- As in uninhibited : adj free and easy; without restraint
- As in vagabond : adj unsettled; vagrant
- As in fancy-free : adj carefree
- As in spouseless : adj single
- As in unwed : adj single
- As in free : adj unrestrained personally
- As in freely : adj without restriction
- The other he had left on the deck of the Fancy Free, his spare diving gear.
- Extract from : « Where the Pavement Ends » by John Russell
- And then I said, “Twenty-seven years old and still free and fancy free?”
- Extract from : « The Sea-Wolf » by Jack London
- She had learned, in the wisdom of her sex, that he was fancy free.
- Extract from : « The Man From Brodney's » by George Barr McCutcheon
- She seems to be fancy free, and for some reason I feel sorry for the girl.
- Extract from : « Tales of Chinatown » by Sax Rohmer
- I've gone about in maiden meditation and man's breeches, fancy free.
- Extract from : « The Mountebank » by William J. Locke
- Cap'n of the Fancy Free, that flash little lugger out beyond.
- Extract from : « Where the Pavement Ends » by John Russell
- If your affections had been fancy free, wouldn't you have married Mlle. de Beaumesnil?
- Extract from : « Pride » by Eugne Sue
- In this case the very slightness of the material on which his mind dwelt set the wings of his fancy free.
- Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland
- Whatever our wishes, we do not expect ghosts to be real, and we are fancy free to invent or distort as we may.
- Extract from : « Great Ghost Stories » by Various
- Her gallant rescuer being a married man, Evangelina remains to this day in "maiden meditation, fancy free."
- Extract from : « Cuba Past and Present » by Richard Davey
Synonyms for fancy free
- able
- advisedly
- aimless
- allowed
- apart
- as you please
- at large
- at liberty
- at one's discretion
- at one's pleasure
- at will
- audacious
- autonomous
- available
- bachelor
- candid
- candidly
- casual
- clear
- companionless
- cut loose
- deliberately
- designedly
- destitute
- detached
- disengaged
- divorced
- down-and-out
- drifting
- easy
- eligible
- errant
- escaped
- expansive
- familiar
- fancy-free
- fly-by-night
- footloose
- footloose and fancy-free
- forward
- frank
- frankly
- free
- free-spirited
- free-wheeling
- hanging out
- happy-go-lucky
- idle
- independent
- informal
- instinctive
- intentionally
- itinerant
- itinerate
- journeying
- lax
- liberal
- liberated
- living alone
- lone
- loner
- loose
- mendicant
- migratory
- moving
- natural
- no holds barred
- nomadic
- of one's own accord
- of one's own free will
- off the cuff
- off the hook
- on one's own
- on the loose
- open
- openly
- perambulant
- perambulatory
- peripatetic
- permitted
- plainly
- prodigal
- purposely
- rambling
- relaxed
- roaming
- rootless
- roving
- sauntering
- separate
- separated
- shifting
- shiftless
- single
- sole
- solo
- spontaneous
- spontaneously
- spouseless
- straggling
- stray
- strolling
- transient
- travelling
- unaffiliated
- unattached
- unbridled
- unchallenged
- unchecked
- uncommited
- uncommitted
- unconfined
- unconnected
- unconstrained
- uncontrolled
- uncurbed
- unengaged
- unfettered
- ungoverned
- unhampered
- unimpeded
- uninvolved
- unmarried
- unobstructed
- unregulated
- unrepressed
- unreserved
- unreservedly
- unrestrained
- unrestricted
- unself-conscious
- unsettled
- unsuppressed
- untrammeled
- unwed
- voluntarily
- wandering
- wayfaring
- wayward
- willingly
- without commitments
- without hindrance
- without prompting
- without reserve
- without restraint
- without ties
- without urging
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