independently

English

Etymology

From independent +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: in‧de‧pend‧ent‧ly

Adverb

independently (comparative more independently, superlative most independently)

1. In an independent manner.

   Both teams worked out the answers independently.

   The business partners had radically different ideas for the company, and each decided to work on a project independently of the other.

   • 1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 25:

     By the end of this period pupils are expected to be reading simple books independently and with enthusiasm.

   • 2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:individually

Derived terms

• independently wealthy

Translations

in an independent manner

• Belarusian: самасто́йна (samastójna), незале́жна (njezaljéžna)
• Bulgarian: незави́симо (bg) (nezavísimo)
• Catalan: independentment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨立地 / 独立地 (zh) (dúlì de), 自立地 (zh) (zìlì de)

• Czech: nezávisle
• Dutch: onafhankelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: sendepende
• Finnish: itsenäisesti (fi)
• French: indépendamment (fr)
• Galician: independentemente (gl)
• German: unabhängig (de), selbstständig (de)
• Hungarian: (egymástól) függetlenül, önállóan (hu)
• Italian: indipendentemente (it)
• Japanese: 独立して (ja) (どくりつして, dokuritsu shite), 自立して (ja) (じりつして, jiritsu shite), 単独で (ja) (たんどくで, tandoku de)
• Korean: 독립하여 (ko) (dongniphayeo), 자주적으로 (ko) (jajujeogeuro)
• Latvian: neatkarīgi
• Macedonian: независно (nezavisno)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uavhengig (no)

• Polish: niepodlegle, niezależnie (pl), niezawiśle
• Portuguese: independentemente (pt)
• Russian: незави́симо (ru) (nezavísimo), самостоя́тельно (ru) (samostojátelʹno) (by oneself, on one's own)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: nȅovisno (sh), nezávisno (sh), sȁmostālno (sh)

• Slovak: nezávisle
• Spanish: independientemente (es)
• Swedish: självständigt (sv)
• Ukrainian: самості́йно (samostíjno), незале́жно (nezaléžno)