independent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.dɪˈpɛn.dənt/
Forms: form: more independent
form: most independent
Etymology: From French indépendant.
Senses: examples: text: Niinisto pointed out that he had already told Putin at their first meeting in 2012 that “each independent nation would maximize its own security.”
“That is still the case. By joining NATO, Finland will strengthen its own security and assume its responsibilities. It is not something away from anybody,” Niinisto said.
ref: 2022 May 14, Jari Tanner, “Putin warns Finland NATO membership would harm relations”, in AP News, archived from the original on 14 May 2022:
glosses: Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
examples: text: the independent candidate
text: At one point in the debate, the moderator asked a tough question that had the candidates stumped.
Moderator: "This question is for both of the candidates. Those ever-important independent voters who haven’t decided who to vote for would like to know what the real differences between you two are."
Gore: "I think the real difference between Governor Bush and I is that he is in fact a Republican, and I am currently a Democrat."
Moderator: "That doesn’t really answer the question, I am talking about issues."
Bush: "No, he is right. I am a Republican, and he is a Democrat."
ref: 2000 October 3, Tim Paluch, “Gore vs. Bush: That's Debatable”, in Iowa State Daily:
text: Joe Biden is making a clear attempt to appeal to disaffected Republicans and independent voters in the final weeks of the election, promising he’d be a president that would work hard not just for those who support him, but also for those who do not.
ref: 2020 October 10, Sarah Mucha, “‘A moment to put country above party’: Biden makes appeal to disaffected Republican and independent voters”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Not affiliated with any political party.
examples: text: an independent property
glosses: Providing a comfortable livelihood.
examples: text: a man of an independent mind
glosses: Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1795, Robert Plumer Ward, An Enquiry into the Foundation and History of the Law of Nations in Europe from the Time of the Greeks and Romans to the Age of Grotius:
glosses: Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
Synonyms: word: autonomous
word: free
word: self-standing
word: substantive
topics: politics
government
word: crossbencher
Hyponyms: language-independent
order-independent
redshift-independent
system-dependent
Derived terms: act of independent significance
affinely independent
algebraically independent
case-independent
case independent
Commonwealth of Independent States
defense-independent pitching statistics
independency
independent city
independent clause
independent contractor
independent counsel
independent function
independent genitive
independentism
Independentism
independentist
independentization
independentize
independently
independent means
independent mini-nation
Independent Olympic Participant
independent possessive
independent scholar
independent set
independent variable
language-independent
linearly independent
mini-independent country
nonindependent
platform-independent
pseudoindependent
redundant array of independent disks
semi-independent
teal independent
time-independent
time-independent Markovian type
Related terms: depend
dependence
dependently
independence
pendant
pending