Adjective

(en adjective)

Inoperative, disabled.

:All the lights are off .

Rancid, rotten.

:This milk is off !

(cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

Less than normal, in temperament or in result.

:sales are off this quarter

Circumstanced (as in well off'', ''better off'', ''poorly off ).

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Started on the way.

:off to see the wizard

:And they're off ! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.

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Far; off to the side.

:the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse

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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

*1937 , (Zora Neale Hurston), Their Eyes Were Watching God , Harper Perennial (2000), p.151:

*:He came in, took a look and squinched down into a chair in an off corner and didn’t open his mouth.

Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.

:He took an off''' day for fishing.  an '''off''' year in politics; the '''off season

Adjective

(er)

(label) Unconstrained.

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# Not imprisoned or enslaved.

# Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; frank; communicative.

#* Milward

He was free only with a few.

# Generous; liberal.

# (label) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free .

# Without obligations.

# Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?

# Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.

# (label) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.

# (label) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.

Obtainable without any payment.

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# Obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else.

(label) Unconstrained.

# (label) Unconstrained by relators.

# Unconstrained by quantifiers.

# (label) Of identifiers, not bound.

# That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.

(label) Unconstrained.

# Unobstructed, without blockages.

# Unattached or uncombined.

# Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.

# Not attached; loose.

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Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.

* (w) (1635?-1715)

princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties

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(label) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.

(label) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of .

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.

Certain or honourable; the opposite of base .

(Burrill)

(label) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common .

(Burrill)