elbowroom

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: el=bow=room

CIDE DICTIONARY

elbowroom, n. 

 Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
"Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

elbowroom

air space, ample scope, blank check, carte blanche, clearance, field, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, full scope, full swing, headroom, latitude, leeway, long rope, maneuvering space, margin, no holds barred, open space, play, range, room, room to spare, rope, scope, sea room, space, spare room, swing, tolerance, way, wide berth

ROGET THESAURUS

elbowroom

Freedom

N freedom, liberty, independence, license, facility, scope, range, latitude, play, free play, full play, free scope, full scope, free stage and no favor, swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth, Liberty Hall, franchise, denization, free man, freed man, livery man, denizen, autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade, noninterference, Monroe Doctrine, immunity, exemption, emancipation, enfranchisement, affranchisement, free land, freehold, allodium, frankalmoigne, mortmain, bushwhacker, freelance, free thinker, free trader, independent, free, free as air, out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free, left alone, left to oneself, in full swing, uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled, unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled, unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional, absolute, discretionary, unassailed, unforced, uncompelled, unbiassed, spontaneous, free and easy, at ease, at one's ease, degage, quite at home, wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished, exempt, freed, freeborn, autonomous, freehold, allodial, gratis, eleutherian, unclaimed, going a begging, freely, ad libitum, ubi libertas ibi patria, free white and twenty-one.