unconfined

/ˈʌnkənˌfaɪnd/

Other forms: unconfinedly

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.

Definitions of unconfined

1. adjective

   not confined
   synonyms:

   free-range

   of livestock and domestic poultry; permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot

   free

   able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint

   antonyms:

   confined

   not free to move about

   claustrophobic

   uncomfortably closed or hemmed in

   close, confining

   crowded

   homebound, housebound, shut-in

   confined usually by illness

   pent, shut up

   closely confined

   snowbound

   confined or shut in by heavy snow

   stormbound

   delayed or confined or cut off by a storm

   weather-bound

   delayed or shut in by bad weather

   unfree

   hampered and not free; not able to act at will

   restricted

   subject to restriction or subjected to restriction
2. adjective

   free from confinement or physical restraint
   synonyms: unimprisoned

   free

   able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint