Autonomous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Autonomous \Au*ton"o*mous\, a. [Gr. ?; ? self + ? to assign,
     hold, sway.]
     1. Independent in government; having the right or power of
        self-government.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. (Biol.) Having independent existence or laws.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  autonomous
       adj 1: of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign
              state" [syn: {independent}, {self-governing}, {sovereign}]
       2: existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of
          India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"
       3: of persons; free from external control and constraint in
          e.g. action and judgment [syn: {self-directed}, {self-reliant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "autonomous":
     absolute, arbitrary, aristocratic, autarchic, autarkic,
     authoritarian, autocratic, bureaucratic, civic, civil,
     constitutional, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, discretional,
     discretionary, elective, fascist, federal, federalist,
     federalistic, free, free will, free-spirited, freewheeling,
     governmental, gratuitous, gubernatorial, heteronomous, independent,
     individualistic, inner-directed, matriarchal, matriarchic,
     monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, neutral, nonaligned,
     nonmandatory, nonpartisan, offered, official, oligarchal,
     oligarchic, optional, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal,
     patriarchic, pluralistic, political, proffered, republican,
     self-acting, self-active, self-contained, self-dependent,
     self-determined, self-determining, self-directing, self-governed,
     self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent, self-sufficient,
     self-supporting, separate, sovereign, spontaneous, theocratic,
     third-force, third-world, totalitarian, unasked, unbesought,
     unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained,
     uncontrolled, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured,
     unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought,
     voluntary, volunteer, willful