INDEPENDENT Synonyms

• not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint

• unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion

• not held in servitude

• people who are free

• without restraint

• costing nothing

• not occupied or in use

• not fixed in position

• not taken up by scheduled activities

• completely wanting or lacking

• not literal

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• relieve from

• remove or force out from a position

• grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to

• make (information) available for publication

• free from obligations or duties

• free or remove obstruction from

• let off the hook

• part with a possession or right

• release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• make (assets) available

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• greatest in status or authority or power

• standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything

• (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

• able to provide for your own needs without help from others

• a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

• working for yourself

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• serving for wages in a foreign army

• working for yourself

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• serving for wages in a foreign army

• work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• any very large body of (salt) water

• a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

• most important element

• of force; of the greatest possible intensity

• someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884

• a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them