live your own life
Definition
› to spend your life doing what you want usually because something is no longer stopping you from doing so: Now that the children have left home I can live my own life again.Freedom to actOpportunity
(Definition of live your own life from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Affecting and influencing
- Being based on or depending on something
- Controlling and being in charge
- Lack of freedom to act
- Liberating, relaxing and releasing
- Limiting and restricting
- Managing and organizing
- People in charge of or controlling other people
- Power to control
- Range and limits
- Self-control and moderation
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Synonyms and related words:
- (as) free as a bird idiom
- at will idiom
- autonomous adjective
- autonomy noun
- be a law unto yourself idiom
- feel free idiom
- free agent noun
- free country noun
- free hand noun
- free-form adjective
- lib noun
- liberated adjective
- liberating adjective
- liberation noun
- libertarian noun
- self-inflicted adjective
- the world is sb's oyster idiom
- think for yourself phrasal verb
- unaccountable adjective (NOT RESPONSIBLE)
- unfettered adjective
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