Word.ws English Dictionary

unfetters

unfetters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unfetter.

Meaning of unfetter

Verb

unfetter (third-person singular simple present unfetters, present participle unfettering, simple past and past participle unfettered)

  1. (transitive) To release from fetters; to unchain; to let loose; to free.
    • He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86

Questions about unfetters

What is unfetters the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unfetters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unfetter.

Words near unfetters in the dictionary

  1. unfetter
  2. unfettered
  3. unfetteredly
  4. unfetteredness
  5. unfettering
  6. unfetters
  7. unfettled
  8. unfeudal
  9. unfeudalise
  10. unfeudalised
  11. unfeudalises

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unfetters (page history and authors); unfetter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unfetters.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unfetters. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.