autonomous

Meaning

1. Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
2. Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
3. Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).

Synonyms

independent

self-governing

autonomic

sovereign

self-directed

self-reliant

self-supporting

self-sufficient

self-governed

unaided

unassisted

unbacked

unsupervised

voluntary

self governing

self-sustained

self determined

self-ruling

self-suporting

noninteraction

distinct

efficient

free

🆓

self-contained

self-sustaining

separate

single-handed

stand-alone

Translations

autonome

autónomo

autônomo

autonomo

autonom

autonoom

indépendant

onafhankelijk

independiente

αυτόνομος

unabhängig

autónomo

autònom

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɔːˈtɒnəməs/

Etymology

From autonomy + -ous.