Independent

In`de`pend´ent

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.

Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.

Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.

Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.

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.

(Eccl.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.

(Math.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; - said of quantities or functions.

(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.

(Eccl.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.

(Politics) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.

Noun	1.	independent - a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) Synonyms: fencesitter, mugwump
	2.	independent - a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them Synonyms: freelance, self-employed person
Adj.	1.	independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic" Antonyms: dependent - not independent; "dependent children"
	2.	independent - not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
	3.	independent - of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state" Synonyms: autonomous, self-governing, sovereign
	4.	independent - not contingent
	5.	independent - 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" Synonyms: main Antonyms: dependent, subordinate - of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
	6.	independent - not controlled by a party or interest group

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