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INDEPENDENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
Synonyms:
free-lance; free lance; freelance; freelancer; independent; self-employed person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("independent" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
Synonyms:
fencesitter; independent; mugwump
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("independent" is a kind of...):
individualist (a person who pursues independent thought or action)
Domain category:
government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from external control and constraint
Example:
fiercely independent individualism
Classified under:
Similar:
unconditional (not contingent; not determined or influenced by someone or something else)
unaffiliated (not affiliated)
strong-minded (marked by vigorous independence of thought and judgment)
single-handed (without help from others)
self-supporting (financially independent)
self-sufficient; self-sufficing; self-sustaining (able to provide for your own needs without help from others)
case-by-case; individual; item-by-item (separate and distinct from others of the same kind)
indie ((of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company)
free-living; nonparasitic; nonsymbiotic (not parasitic on another organism)
commutative ((of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g.)
breakaway; fissiparous; separatist (having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude)
autonomous (existing as an independent entity)
autonomous; self-directed; self-reliant ((of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment)
autarkic; autarkical (of countries; not relying on imports)
Also:
free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)
separate (independent; not united or joint)
Attribute:
independence; independency (freedom from control or influence of another or others)
Antonym:
dependent (relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed)
Derivation:
independence; independency (freedom from control or influence of another or others)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
Example:
the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb
Synonyms:
independent; main
Classified under:
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Antonym:
dependent ((of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not controlled by a party or interest group
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
nonpartisan; nonpartizan (free from party affiliation or bias)
Derivation:
independence (freedom from control or influence of another or others)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
Example:
a sovereign state
Synonyms:
autonomous; independent; self-governing; sovereign
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)
Derivation:
independence (freedom from control or influence of another or others)
Context examples:
The new results, derived using an independent line of evidence based on Cassini's images, confirm this to be the case.
(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)
Metformin may exert antineoplastic effects through AMPK-mediated or AMPK-independent inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), which is up-regulated in many cancer tissues.
(Metformin hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
Now that you have independent and somewhat rebellious Uranus in your third house of communication, you are showing that you are also skilled with language and analytical left-brain talents.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
AIF is both a mitochondrial intermembrane flavoprotein with oxidoreductase activity and a caspase-independent death effector that, similar to cytochrome c, is released from mitochondria early in the apoptotic process.
(Apoptosis Inducer BZL101, NCI Thesaurus)
These pathways are independent since the EndoG pathway still occurs in cells lacking DFF.
(Apoptotic DNA Fragmentation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
These include personal maintenance activities and activities for maintenance of our living space, as well as activities related to independent living.
(Activity of Daily Living, NCI Thesaurus)
Many early prostate cancers require androgens for growth, but advanced prostate cancers are often androgen-independent.
(Androgen-independent, NCI Dictionary)
APC-100 may ultimately lead to an inhibition of growth in both AR-dependent and AR-independent prostate tumor cells.
(Androgen Antagonist APC-100, NCI Thesaurus)
The teaching would render her independent, and such leisure as she got might be made profitable by writing, while the new scenes and society would be both useful and agreeable.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication.
(Article, NCI Thesaurus)
