- in a way that is self-governing or free of outside control; independently:The ideal candidate will be able to work autonomously and without supervision.
- with little or no human control or intervention:We have developed a service robot that operates autonomously, in concert with a network of devices in its environment.
- Biology.
- as an independent organism:Viruses, on the boundary between living and nonliving, cannot autonomously reproduce but require the biochemistry and structure of a host cell.
- naturally or spontaneously, without cultivation:They organized a work day to get rid of the plants growing wildly, autonomously, and unwantedly all around the building.
