independently

Adverb

Meaning

In an independent manner; without control.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

severally away separate originally alone apart solo solely freely individually voluntarily narrowly distinctly singly single-handed

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Antonyms

together altogether alike socially collectively internally

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Phrases with the word

existing independently considered independently independently rich viewed independently independently developed independently generated

Examples

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. Charles Darwin

the public never is independently responsive to news. Edwin Lefèvre

I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own. Gregory Peck

Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. Francis Crick

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war. Mikhail Gorbachev

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently. Werner Herzog

Close letter words and terms

independentist independentization independentize independently developed independently generated independently invented