Thesaurus: independent

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1. a. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.
2. a. Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.
3. a. Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
4. a. Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.
5. a. Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
6. a. Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
7. a. Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.
8. a. Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.
9. n. One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.
10. n. One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.
11. adj. free from external control and constraint
12. adj. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces