freewheeling

1. 1.

   free of restraints or rules

   “freewheeling foolishness”

   “the versatility of his poetic freewheeling style”

   Similarunrestrained
2. 2.

   cheerfully irresponsible

   “carefree with his money”

   “freewheeling urban youths”

   “had a harum-scarum youth”

   Synonymscarefreedevil-may-carehappy-go-luckyharum-scarumslaphappy

   Similarirresponsible

Questions about freewheeling

What does freewheeling mean?

freewheeling means "free of restraints or rules". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in freewheeling?

freewheeling has 3 syllables: free-whee-ling. The stress falls on "free". In IPA it is /ˈfɹiˌwilɪŋ/.

What is another word for freewheeling?

Close synonyms include carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is freewheeling a common word?

freewheeling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with freewheeling?

1 word rhymes with freewheeling. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.