Synonyms for autonomous
ɔˈtɒn ə məsau·ton·o·mous

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1. autonomousadjective

   Antonyms:
   heteronomous

2. autonomousadjective

   Self-governing. Governing independently.

   Synonyms:
   sovereign, self-governing

   Antonyms:
   heteronomous

3. autonomousadjective

   Antonyms:
   heteronomous

4. autonomousadjective

   Antonyms:
   heteronomous

5. autonomousadjective

   Synonyms:
   self-directed, selfstanding

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1. autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereignadjective

   (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

   "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"

   Synonyms:
   main(a), self-reliant, supreme, sovereign, self-governing, self-directed, independent

   Antonyms:
   unfree, dependent

2. autonomousadjective

   existing as an independent entity

   "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"

   Synonyms:
   self-governing, independent, sovereign, self-reliant, self-directed

   Antonyms:
   dependent, unfree

3. autonomous, self-directed, self-reliantadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   self-governing, independent, sovereign, self-reliant, self-directed

   Antonyms:
   unfree, dependent

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1. teleoperated

   able to operate without external control (particularly of robots)

   "the autonomous rover has been sending back images for the past month."

   Submitted by rinat on June 9, 2017  

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1. List of paraphrases for "autonomous":

   self-governing, self-contained, stand-alone, autónoma, standalone, self-reliant, self-sustaining, independent, autonomy, self-sufficient, autonomic, self-employed, own-source, self-government, autonome, free-standing, self-rule, self-directed, self-standing, self-sustained, autonomista, arms-length, self-controlled, self-organized, self-supporting, self-, self-sustainable, self, self-balancing, separate, self-governed, devolved, self-determined, self-governance, non-self-governing, autonomist

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1. Hendrith Smith:

   The way we license people and register vehicles will become obsolete soon. We will need to design a new system that is based on autonomous tech, safer cars and more streamlined infrastructure.

2. Thorstin Crijns:

   The main goal of this project is to create a system where passenger can sit in and automatically go to his desired location without manually driving it, so it should be done automatically. So imagine that the passenger sits here, enter destination on a touch screen and the drone will automatically take off and land there, the biggest challenge is to make this entirely safe and entirely autonomous.

3. Jack Watling:

   This does not show that autonomous weapons would be impossible to regulate, but it does show that the discussion continues to be urgent and important. The technology isn’t going to wait for us.

4. Stefan Sommer:

   For autonomous driving, we will need three core technologies: picture processing camera technology, short and long-range radar, and lidar.

5. Udelv CEO Daniel Laury:

   Baidu's Apollo brings us one step closer towards realizing our mission of reinventing delivery by bringing autonomous vehicles to the e-commerce industry.