|ən+ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from un- (I) + free
: not free : lacking freedom:
a. : bound to the land
a primarily agrarian society of … landlords and their unfree tenants — R.H.Hilton
b. obsolete : not holding the status or privileges of membership (as in a civic body or guild)
c. : marked by a lack of political freedom
colonies do not have to remain unfree — Wendell Willkie
d. : marked by a lack of personal liberty
we are all to some degree oppressed, unfree — William James
e. : brought about by coercion
a unity which is artificial because it is unfree — Atlantic