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Meaning of INDEPENDENT

Pronunciation:  `indi'pendunt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
  2. [n]  a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
  3. [adj]  of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"
  4. [adj]  not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
  5. [adj]  not contingent
  6. [adj]  free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic"
  7. [adj]  (grammar) of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
  8. [adj]  not controlled by a party or interest group
 
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 Synonyms: absolute, autarkic, autarkical, autonomous, breakaway, case-by-case, commutative, freelance, free-living, indie, individual, item-by-item, main(a), mugwump, nonparasitic, nonpartisan, nonpartizan, nonsymbiotic, on her own(p), on his own(p), on one's own(p), on their own(p), on your own(p), self-directed, self-employed person, self-governing, self-reliant, self-sufficient, self-sufficing, self-supporting, self-sustaining, separatist, single-handed, sovereign, strong-minded, unaffiliated, unconditional
 
 Antonyms: dependent, subordinate
 
 See Also: free, individualist, separate, worker

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \In`de*pend"ent\, a. [Pref. in- not + dependent: cf.
F. ind['e]pendant.]
1. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not
   relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly
   independent.
         A dry, but independent crust.         --Cowper.
2. Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent
   property.
3. Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious;
   self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
4. Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence;
   free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or
   manner.
5. Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
         That obligation in general, under which we conceive
         ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those
         resources which the law provides for its own
         enforcement.                          --R. P. Ward.
6. (Eccl.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the
   doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
7. (Math.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to
   value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or
   functions.
8. (U. S. Politics) Not bound by party; exercising a free
   choice in voting with either or any party.
{Independent company} (Mil.), one not incorporated in any
   regiment.
{Independent seconds watch}, a stop watch having a second
   hand driven by a separate set of wheels, springs, etc.,
   for timing to a fraction of a second.
{Independent variable}. (Math.) See {Dependent variable},
   under {Dependent}.
Syn: Free; uncontrolled; separate; uncoerced; self-reliant;
     bold; unconstrained; unrestricted.

  2. \In`de*pend"ent\, n.
1. (Eccl.) One who believes that an organized Christian
   church is complete in itself, competent to
   self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical
   authority.
Note: In England the name is often applied (commonly in the
      pl.) to the Congregationalists.
2. (Politics) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to
   support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one
   who exercises liberty in voting.
 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Dreaming that you are independent means a rival who may do you wrong.
 
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