Freewheeling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  freewheeling \freewheeling\ adj.
     Acting heedless of consequences; acting without controls,
     external or internal; as, freewheeling foolishness.
  
     Syn: careless, irresponsible, reckless.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  freewheeling
       adj 1: free of restraints or rules; "freewheeling foolishness";
              "the versatility of his poetic freewheeling style"
       2: cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money";
          "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"
          [syn: {carefree}, {devil-may-care}, {happy-go-lucky}, {harum-scarum},
           {slaphappy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "freewheeling":
     autarchic, autarkic, autonomous, free-spirited, independent,
     individualistic, inner-directed, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan,
     self-contained, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directing,
     self-governed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent,
     self-sufficient, self-supporting, sovereign, third-force,
     third-world