Dictionary Entry
independent
independent is a 11-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.
- 2adjective
Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.
- 3adjective
Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
- 4adjective
Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.
- 5adjective
Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
- 6adjective
Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
- 7adjective
Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.
- 8adjective
Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.
- 9noun
One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.
- 10noun
One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.
- 11noun
a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
Synonyms
- 12noun
a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
Synonyms
- 13adjective
free from external control and constraint
"an independent mind"
"a series of independent judgments"
- 14adjective
(of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
"the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
Synonyms
- 15adjective
not controlled by a party or interest group
- 16adjective
(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
"an autonomous judiciary"
"a sovereign state"
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