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Definition of "freehand" [freehand]

  • Drawn by hand without the aid of tracing or drafting devices: a freehand sketch. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "freehand" in a sentence
  • "I'm pretty good with geography and drawing all the states freehand is a lot tougher than it looks."
  • "Â I spent a lot of time pounding out the clay into flat slabs, cutting it to size, and then (hardest of all) trailing stained slip freehand from a bottle."
  • "Not mere utilitarian drawing-to-scale and making plans and elevations, but "freehand" - drawing, the reproducing of meaningless twirly curves and twiddly twists from symmetrical conventional "copies"."