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nonautonomous

nonautonomous adjective: not autonomous.

Adjective

nonautonomous (not comparable)

  1. Not autonomous.
    • […] We all have rights, and we range from drooling, nonautonomous people to people who are extraordinarily autonomous, like Richard Epstein.”2014 April 23, Charles Siebert, “Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner?”, in The New York Times Magazine

Forms of nonautonomous

alternative formnon-autonomous

Origin of nonautonomous

From non- + autonomous.

Words formed from nonautonomous

Questions about nonautonomous

What does nonautonomous mean?
Nonautonomous means not autonomous.
What part of speech is nonautonomous?
Nonautonomous is an adjective.

Words near nonautonomous in the dictionary

  1. nonautomatically
  2. nonautomaticity
  3. nonautomation
  4. nonautomotive
  5. nonautonomic
  6. nonautonomous
  7. nonautonomously
  8. nonautonomy
  9. nonautophagic
  10. nonautoreactive
  11. nonautoregressive

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