independent

Plural: independents

Noun

• a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
• A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a freethinker, free of a party platform.
• A neutral or uncommitted person.
• A small, privately owned business.
• A team not affiliated with any league or conference.

Adjective

• free from external control and constraint
  • "an independent mind"
  • "a series of independent judgments"
  • "fiercely independent individualism"
• (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"

Adjective Satellite

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
• not controlled by a party or interest group

Adj

• Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
• Not affiliated with any political party.
• Providing a comfortable livelihood.
• Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
• Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.

Examples

• a man of an independent mind
• an independent property
• the independent candidate

Synonyms

autonomous, fencesitter, free lance, free-lance, freelance, freelancer, main, mugwump, self-employed person, self-governing, sovereign, crossbencher, free, self-standing, substantive

Antonyms

dependent, contingent

Related Words

depend, dependence, dependently, independence, pendant, pending

Anagrams of independent