# unfree

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #80,996

## Definitions
1. Not free; lacking freedom, especially (historical) of a tenant who was bound to a manor.

## Etymology
From Middle English unfre, from Old English [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *unfrī; cognates include Middle High German unfrī (German unfrei), Middle Low German unvrī, Middle Dutch onvri (Dutch onvrij). By surface analysis, un- + free.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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