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Autonomous
/ɔːˈtɒnəməs/
Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
📖 Definitions of "Autonomous"
- 1
Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
- 2
Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
- 3
(Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) 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 of "Autonomous"
6 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| freenoun | (social) Unconstrained. |
| independentnoun | Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free. |
| self-reliant | Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment. |
| self-directed | Directed, independently by oneself without external control or constraint; directed for oneself. |
| self-governing | autonomous |
| sovereignnoun | Having supreme, ultimate power. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Autonomous"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| self-reliant | Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment. |
| self-directed | Directed, independently by oneself without external control or constraint; directed for oneself. |
| self-governing | autonomous |
| independent | Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free. |
| sovereignnoun | Having supreme, ultimate power. |
| free | (social) Unconstrained. |
| subjective | Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment. |
| self | (molecular biology, immunology) Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic). |
| distinct | Different from one another (with the preferable adposition being "from"). |
| self-regulating | Able to control itself. |
| self-regulated | Regulated by oneself or itself. |
| empoweredverb | (US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation. |
| empowermentnoun | The achievement of political, social or economic power by an individual or group. |
| self-motivated | Motivated to achieve something due to one's own interest. |
| own | Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. |
| self-determined | Marked by self-determination. |
| autonomynoun | (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently. |
| self-helpnoun | The practice of bettering oneself without relying on the assistance of others. |
| self-supporting | Characterized by self-support. |
| self-reliancenoun | The capacity to rely on one's own capabilities, and to manage one's own affairs; independence. |
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