Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no commitments or restrictions; carefree.
- adjective Not in love or married; unattached.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the fancy or affections free; heart-free; untrammeled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from the power of love.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Free ofcommitments orobligations - adjective Having no
spouse or otherpartner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no commitments or responsibilities; carefree
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Examples
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"My character doesn't have his stuff figured out yet and is a bit fancy-free," Foster tells TVGuide.com about his upcoming arc as George, the younger love interest to Mel Melissa Joan Hart.
Will Scott Michael Foster Come Between Melissa & Joey's "Will They or Won't They?" Tension? 2011
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Two lesbian moms are discomfited when their teenage daughter gets in touch with her sperm donor biological dad, even more so when he turns out not to be the genius-level model citizen they imagined but a footloose and fancy-free guy who shakes up their lives.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Scott Pilgrim ! Bing ! Sherlock ! And More! Michael Giltz 2010
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Two lesbian moms are discomfited when their teenage daughter gets in touch with her sperm donor biological dad, even more so when he turns out not to be the genius-level model citizen they imagined but a footloose and fancy-free guy who shakes up their lives.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Scott Pilgrim ! Bing ! Sherlock ! And More! Michael Giltz 2010
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It all sounds so serendipitous...so freewheelingly footloose and fancy-free...
A "Dreme" Come True 2010
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As a single footloose and fancy-free 20-something-year-old in Mexico City in the 1980s, I often heard that the most beautiful women in Mexico came from the state of Sinaloa.
Did you know? Sinaloa has the most beautiful women in Mexico. 2008
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As a single footloose and fancy-free 20-something-year-old in Mexico City in the 1980s, I often heard that the most beautiful women in Mexico came from the state of Sinaloa.
Did you know? Sinaloa has the most beautiful women in Mexico. 2008
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The story begins in 1882, when I was in my mid-twenties, footloose and fancy-free.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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The story begins in 1882, when I was in my mid-twenties, footloose and fancy-free.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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The story begins in 1882, when I was in my mid-twenties, footloose and fancy-free.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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But, alas, since there are no reanimated corpses that will take over the world and spare me from yet one more whiny op-ed about why Barack Obama should or should not have won the Nobel Prize and "what it means," I guess I'll just keep on truckin 'until Halloween comes and I can don the dress of the undead to live out my fancy-free fantasies.
Esther J. Cepeda: Savoring the End of the World As We Know It! 2009
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