autonomous

  • (s) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
    • an autonomous judiciary
    • a sovereign state
    self-governing, sovereign, independent,
  • (s) existing as an independent entity
    • the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies
  • (s) (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment self-directed, self-reliant,

Synonyms

self-governing sovereign independent self-directed self-reliant

Words of close approximity