- the power to make your own decisions about what to do, without being controlled by God, fate or circumstancesTopics Preferences and decisionsc2
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Idioms
See free will in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee free will in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishof your own free will
- because you want to do something rather than because somebody has told or forced you to do it
- She left of her own free will.
Check pronunciation:
free will