independently

What it means

1. In an independent manner.

   Both teams worked out the answers independently.

   3 more examples

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

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

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

   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.

   2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times

In a sentence

Both teams worked out the answers independently.

Where it comes from

From independent + -ly.