Adjective
1. free from external control and constraint;
"an independent mind""a series of independent judgments""fiercely independent individualism""an independent republic"2. not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
3. of political bodies;
"an autonomous judiciary""a sovereign state"4. not contingent
5. of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;
"the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"6. not controlled by a party or interest group