unconfined
Britishadjective
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not enclosed or restricted; free
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(of an emotion) not restricted or disguised
unconfined joy
Explanation
If something is unconfined, it's free from physical restraint. Unlike chickens in industrial chicken farms, the unconfined chickens raised on real farms get to wander all they want. Confinement is enclosure, so something that is unconfined has no boundaries or limits. If you're super excited because you just won the lottery, your joy is unconfined. If you think that the world is tumbling into doom, then you are an unconfined pessimist. If you are released from prison after 20 years, it will feel strange and wonderful to be unconfined.
Vocabulary lists containing unconfined
"To Althea, from Prison" by Richard Lovelace
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Krassner is the editor of “The Realist Cartoons” collection and the author of “Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2017
Paul Krassner is the author of “Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2016
Unconfined by walls, it thinned, and I was able to take in more of the guests at a glance.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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