autonomous

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
  • "an autonomous judiciary"
• existing as an independent entity
  • "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"
• (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

Adj

• Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
• Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
• Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).

Synonyms

independent, self-directed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-standing, sovereign

Antonyms

heteronomous

Related Words

autonomous area, autonomy