ALL meanings of autonomous
au·ton·o·mous
A a - adjective autonomous An autonomous country, organization, or group governs or controls itself rather than being controlled by anyone else. 3
- adjective autonomous An autonomous person makes their own decisions rather than being influenced by someone else. 3
- adjective autonomous (of a community, country, etc) possessing a large degree of self-government 3
- adjective autonomous of or relating to an autonomous community 3
- adjective autonomous independent of others 3
- adjective autonomous acting or able to act in accordance with rules and principles of one's own choosing 3
- adjective autonomous (in the moral philosophy of Kant, of an individual's will) directed to duty rather than to some other end 3
- adjective autonomous existing as an organism independent of other organisms or parts 3
- adjective autonomous of or having to do with an autonomy 3
- adjective autonomous having self-government 3
- adjective autonomous functioning independently without control by others 3
- adjective autonomous existing, functioning, or developing independently of other parts or forms 3
- abbreviation AUTONOMOUS autotrophic 3
- adjective autonomous resulting from internal causes; autonomic 3
- noun autonomous (of a country or region) Having self-government, at least to a significant degree. 1
- adjective autonomous self-governing 1
- adjective autonomous independent 1
- adjective autonomous Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community. 1
- adjective autonomous having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent: a subsidiary that functioned as an autonomous unit. 1
- adjective autonomous (of a vehicle) navigated and maneuvered by a computer without a need for human control or intervention under a range of driving situations and conditions: an autonomous vehicle. 1
- adjective autonomous Biology. existing and functioning as an independent organism. growing naturally or spontaneously, without cultivation. 1
- adjective autonomous Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, Governing independently. 0
- adjective autonomous Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. 0
- adjective autonomous (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) 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). 0