Definition of Independent

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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.

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Independent Quotations

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim Rohn

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
Samuel Goldwyn

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Charles de Gaulle

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller

Independent Translations

independent in Italian is indipendente, indipendente
independent in Latin is liber libera; liberum
independent in Norwegian is uavhengig
independent in Spanish is independiente

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