Independent

Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.

Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.

Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.

Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.

Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.

Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.

Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.

Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.

One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.

One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.

(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"

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