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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

shackleless en · ADJ

Etymology

From shackle + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That has no shackles, or is not in shackles.
    • Two horses milled shackleless along the street, and a flower seller screamed her abuse as she returned crushed bouquets to her overturned basket. 1994, Maria Greene, An Inconvenient Marriage:
    • Near-synonyms: unshackled, fetterless, unfettered, unchained; unmanacled, unhandcuffed

Synonyms

fetterless · unshackled · unfettered · unmanacled · unchained · unhandcuffed