Unencumbered vs. Encumbered

Unencumberedadjective

Not burdened with worries, cares or responsibilities.

Encumberedadjective

Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.

Unencumberedadjective

Free of encumbrance.

Encumberedverb

simple past tense and past participle of encumber

Unencumberedadjective

(of property) Not subject to any claims.

Encumberedadjective

loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load;

‘a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels’; ‘a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack’; ‘an encumbered estate’;

Unencumberedadjective

free of encumbrance;

‘inherited an unencumbered estate’;

Unencumberedadjective

not burdened with cares or responsibilities;

‘living an unencumbered life’;