autonomous

English

Etymology

From autonomy +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈtɒnəməs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔˈtɑnəməs/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑˈtɑnəməs/
• Rhymes: -ɒnəməs

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: autonymous

Adjective

autonomous (comparative more autonomous, superlative most autonomous)

1. Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.

   Synonyms: sovereign, self-governing

2. Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.

   Synonyms: self-standing, self-directed

   • 2022 October 4, Soumya Karlamangla, “Behind the Story: Navigating San Francisco in a Driverless Car”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Though Cade has for years reported on the development of autonomous vehicles, test drives usually have so-called safety drivers who ride along and can take over in case something goes wrong.

3. (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).

Antonyms

• heteronomous

Derived terms

• autonomous community
• autonomously
• autonomousness
• autonomous oblast
• autonomous okrug
• autonomous prefecture
• autonomous region
• autonomous sensory meridian response
• autonomous vehicle
• autonowashing
• nonautonomous
• semiautonomous
• superautonomous

Related terms

• autonomy

Translations

self-governing — see also independent

• Albanian: autonom (sq)
• Arabic: اِسْتِقْلَالِيّ (istiqlāliyy)
• Armenian: ինքնավար (hy) (inkʻnavar)
• Azerbaijani: muxtar
• Belarusian: аўтано́мны (aŭtanómny)
• Bulgarian: автоно́мен (bg) (avtonómen)
• Buryat: автономито (avtonomito), өөртөө заһаха (öörtöö zahaxa)
• Catalan: autònom (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自治 (zh) (zìzhì)

• Czech: samosprávný (cs), autonomní (cs)
• Danish: autonom (da), selvstyret
• Dutch: autonoom (nl)
• Esperanto: aŭtonoma
• Evenki: автоно̄мнай (awtonōmnaj)
• Extremaduran: autónoma
• Finnish: autonominen (fi), itsehallinnollinen (fi)
• French: autonome (fr)
• Galician: autónomo (gl)
• Georgian: ავტონომიური (avṭonomiuri)
• German: autonom (de)
• Greek: αυτόνομος (el) (aftónomos)
• Hebrew: אוֹטוֹנוֹמִי (aotonómi)
• Hindi: स्वायत्त (hi) (svāyatt)
• Hungarian: autonómia (hu)
• Ido: autonoma (io)
• Indonesian: otonom (id)
• Irish: féinrialaitheach, neamhspleách
• Italian: autonomo (it), indipendente (it)
• Japanese: 自治 (ja) (じち, jichi), 自主的な (ja) (じしゅてきな, jishuteki na)
• Kalmyk: автономн (avtonomn)
• Kazakh: автономиялы (avtonomiäly), автономиялық (avtonomiälyq)
• Khakas: автоном (avtonom)
• Korean: 자치(自治) (ko) (jachi), 자주적(自主的) (ko) (jajujeok)
• Kyrgyz: автономиялык (avtonomiyalık)
• Macedonian: автономен (avtonomen)
• Malay: berautonomi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: өөртөө засах (öörtöö zasax), автономит (mn) (avtonomit)

  Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ
  ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ (öbertegen ǰasaqu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: autonom (no), selvstyrt, sjølstyrt

  Nynorsk: autonom, sjølvstyrt

• Persian: مختار (fa) (moxtâr)
• Polish: autonomiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: autónomo (pt) (Portugal), autônomo (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: autonom (ro)
• Russian: автоно́мный (ru) (avtonómnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̏моста̄лан, а̀утоно̄ман

  Roman: sȁmostālan (sh), àutonōman (sh)

• Slovak: samosprávny, autonómny (sk)
• Slovene: avtonomen, samostojen
• Spanish: autónomo (es)
• Swedish: autonom (sv), självstyrande
• Tajik: мухтор (muxtor)
• Turkish: otonom (tr)
• Tuvan: автономнуг (avtonomnug)
• Ukrainian: автоно́мний (uk) (avtonómnyj)
• Uzbek: avtonomiyali (uz), muxtor (uz)
• Vietnamese: tự trị (vi)
• Written Oirat: ᡄᡋᡄᠷᡄᡃᠨ
  ᠴᠠᠰᠠᡍᡇ (eberēn zasaxu)
• Xibe: ᠪᡝᠶᡝ
  ᡩᠠᠰᠠᡢᡤᠠ
• Yakut: автоно́мнай (avtonómnay), автономияла́ах (avtonomiyaláaq)
• Yiddish: אויטאָנאָם (oytonom), אויטאָנאָמיש (oytonomish)
• Zhuang: swci

acting on one's own

• Belarusian: самасто́йны (be) (samastójny)
• Bulgarian: самостоя́телен (bg) (samostojátelen)
• Catalan: autònom (ca)
• Danish: selvstændig (da), autonom (da)
• Finnish: itsenäinen (fi)
• Galician: autónomo (gl)
• Hindi: आत्मनिर्भर (ātmanirbhar)
• Indonesian: otonom (id)
• Irish: féinriartha, neamhspleách
• Japanese: 自立した (ja) (じりつした, jiritsu shita), 主体的な (ja) (shutaiteki na), 自主的な (ja) (じしゅてきな, jishuteki na)
• Malay: berautonomi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjølstendig (no), selvstendig (no), autonom (no)

  Nynorsk: sjølvstendig, autonom

• Persian: خودسر (fa) (xodsar), خودرای (fa) (xodrây)
• Polish: autonomiczny (pl), samodzielny (pl)
• Portuguese: autónomo (pt) (Portugal), autônomo (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: самостоя́тельный (ru) (samostojátelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̏моста̄лан, не̏овисан

  Roman: sȁmostālan (sh), nȅovisan (sh)

• Slovene: samostojen
• Spanish: autónomo (es)
• Swedish: självständig (sv)
• Ukrainian: самості́йний (samostíjnyj)

a verb form grammar of Celtic language

• Irish: saor

See also

• autonomous area