dependent
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Adjective (6)
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed“dependent children”“dependent on moisture”Opposite independentSimilar interdependent, helpless, babelike, reliant, underage, myrmecophilous, symbiotic, parasiticRelates to independence, independencySee also unfree
- contingent on something elseSynonyms: dependantqualifiedOpposite unconditionalSimilar conditional
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence“a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence”Synonyms: subordinateOpposite independent
- held from above and hanging down“a pendant bunch of grapes”Synonyms: pendentpendantOpposite unsupportedSimilar supported
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others“subject peoples”“a dependent prince”Synonyms: subjectOpposite insubordinateSimilar subordinate
- addicted to a drugSynonyms: dependantdrug-addictedhookedstrung-outOpposite unaddictedSimilar addicted
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Translations
Adjective relying upon
- Spanish
- dependiente
- French
- dépendant
- German
- abhängig
- Italian
- dipendente
- Portuguese
- dependente
- Turkish
- bağımlı
- Russian
- зави́симый zavísimyj
- Arabic
- مُعْتَمِدْ muʕtamid
- Chinese
- 倚赖 yǐlài
- Japanese
- 依存した izon shita
23 more languages
- Dutch
- afhankelijk
- Polish
- zależny
- Swedish
- beroende
- Greek
- εξαρτημένος exartiménos
- Vietnamese
- phụ thuộc
- Hungarian
- függő
- Portuguese (PT)
- dependente
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 倚賴 yǐlài
- Catalan
- dependent
- Czech
- závislý
- Danish
- afhængig
- Esperanto
- dependa
- Estonian
- sõltuv
- Finnish
- riippuvainen
- Georgian
- დამოკიდებული damoḳidebuli
- Hebrew
- תָּלוּי talúi
- Latvian
- atkarīgs
- Norwegian
- avhengig
- Romanian
- dependent
- Scottish Gaelic
- eisimeileach
- Serbo-Croatian
- ovisan
- Slovak
- závislý
- Slovenian
- odvisen
Noun one who relies on another for support
- Spanish
- persona a cargo
- French
- personne à charge
- Portuguese
- dependente
- Turkish
- bakmakla yükümlü olunan kişi
- Arabic
- مُعَال muʕāl
- Japanese
- 被扶養者 hifuyōsha
- Portuguese (PT)
- dependente
- Finnish
- huollettava
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. dependens, -entis, p. pr. dependere. See Depend, and cf. Dependant.
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; subordinate; — often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of independent. [Narrower terms: interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial; parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking; subordinate; underage; myrmecophilous; symbiotic] Also See: unfree.
England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional. Syn. — qualified.
4. addicted to drugs. Syn. — addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
Dependent covenant or Dependent contract Law, one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed. — Dependent variable Mathematics, a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.
1. One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for financial support or favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.
A host of dependents on the court, suborned to play their part as witnesses.— Henry Hallam
2. That which depends; corollary; consequence.
With all its circumstances and dependents.— Prynne.
☞ See the Note under Dependant.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5