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free spirit
noun
- a person with a highly individual or unique attitude, lifestyle, or imagination; nonconformist.
Example Sentences
Lola is a relative free spirit with an open heart but a sense of limits; Aimée’s performance emphasizes the essential innocence, or maybe insignificance, of her flirtations.
Eugene, meanwhile, was celebrated as “a haven for free spirits and creative minds” with “an eclectic counterculture that thrives right alongside its academic scene.”
Theresa was a free spirit and “hippie environmentalist,” her brother said.
Mr. Suzuki was a free spirit who left Japan as a teenager for a nomadic life in Europe.
Mr. Zhou, always a free spirit, had worked in Shanghai as a teacher at an alternative school.
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What is a free spirit?
A free spirit is a person who is highly individual or is nonconformist in their attitude, as in Romie lives in a rural area and doesn’t have the internet or cable because he wants to be a free spirit.
A free spirit is a type of person who is identified, usually by themselves, as being highly nonconformist and imaginative. Free spirits often go against societal norms and portray an attitude or lifestyle of spontaneity and peace. Free spirits often preach living a simple life and striving for idealistic values.
The term free spirit is often associated with the hippie and flower child movements, a time from the 1960s to the 1970s when groups of young people rejected conventional society and continuously spoke about the search for self-knowledge, peace, and love.
Animals can also be described as free spirits. House cats, for example, are often called free spirited because of their tendency to roam outside of the home and their need for independence in order to live happily.
Example: Emma lives in a motorhome she drives around the country so she can live as a free spirit.
Where does free spirit come from?
The first records of the term free spirit come from around the 1530s. It combines the terms free, meaning “exempt from external authority,” and spirit, meaning “an attitude that inspires thought, feeling, or action.” A free spirit is someone whose attitude is one of independence rather than conforming to the society around them.
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What are some other forms related to free spirit?
- free-spirited (adjective)
What are some synonyms for free spirit?
What are some words that share a root or word element with free spirit?
What are some words that often get used in discussing free spirit?
How is free spirit used in real life?
Free spirit is more often used informally than formally to describe someone who doesn’t like to conform to societal norms in some way.
Indu Jain was a free spirit, a philanthropist, a mother and a business leader. Her life’s work and achievements spanned multiple domains. My prayers are with her family, friends, admirers and the entire Times Group.
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) May 14, 2021
You could put me in a room full of billionaires ! Imma still feel like the man and like they have to earn my respect not vice versa . Because even great men know a strong free spirit is priceless !!!
— little farma (@stylesp) April 27, 2019
it is never too late, you are never too old, to be the free spirit society told you you couldn’t be…
— Joél Leon. (@JoelakaMaG) May 3, 2019
Try using free spirit!
Which of the following is NOT a synonym for free spirit?
A. hippie
B. conformist
C. freethinker
D. bohemian
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