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freehanded

adjective, adverb, verb

freehanded is an adjective meaning “Openhanded; generous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-H-A-N-D-E-D, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does freehanded mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Openhanded; generous.

  2. 2

    Freehand, unassisted.

  3. 3

    Unconstrained.

  4. 4

    Having empty hands.

  5. 5

    Transferable to other assets.

adverb

  1. 1

    Generously.

  2. 2

    Unassisted.

  3. 3

    In an unconstrained manner.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of freehand (a form of freehand)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of freehanded

  • more freehanded comparative
  • most freehanded superlative
  • free-handed

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is freehanded?

Freehanded appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does freehanded come from?

From free + handed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).