WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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autonomous, fencesitter, freelance, independent, main(a), mugwump, self-employed person, self-governing, sovereign,
1. NOUN. (independent)
a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
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2. NOUN. (independent)
a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
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3. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (independent)
not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
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4. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (independent)
not contingent
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5. ADJ. (independent)
free from external control and constraint
"an independent mind"
"a series of independent judgments"
"fiercely independent individualism"
"an independent republic"
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autarkic, autarkical, autonomous, self-directed, self-reliant, autonomous, breakaway, fissiparous, separatist, commutative, free-living, nonparasitic, nonsymbiotic, indie, individual, case-by-case, item-by-item, on one's own(p), on his own(p), on her own(p), on your own(p), on their own(p), self-sufficient, self-sufficing, self-sustaining, self-supporting, single-handed, strong-minded, unaffiliated, unconditional,
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6. ADJ. (independent)
of a clause
able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
"the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
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7. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (independent)
not controlled by a party or interest group
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8. ADJECTIVE SATELLITE. (independent)
of political bodies
"an autonomous judiciary"
"a sovereign state"
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