self-governing

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: self-gov=ern=ing

THESAURUS

self-governing

absolute, aristocratic, autarchic, autarkic, authoritarian, autocratic, automated, automatic, automatous, autonomous, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, cybernated, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, free-spirited, freewheeling, governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, independent, individualistic, inner-directed, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, popular, republican, self-acting, self-active, self-adjusting, self-closing, self-contained, self-controlled, self-cooking, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping, self-governed, self-lighting, self-operative, self-regulative, self-reliant, self-starting, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-winding, self-working, semiautomatic, sovereign, spontaneous, theocratic, third-force, third-world, totalitarian