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Dependent

Dependent Meaning & Definition
Dependent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dependent?

[n] a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
[adj] addicted to a drug
[adj] contingent on something else
[adj] not independent; "dependent children"
[adj] (grammar) 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"
[adj] being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dependent: addicted | babelike | bloodsucking | conditional | dependant | dependant | dependent on(p) | drug-addicted | helpless | hooked | interdependent | leechlike | mutualist | mutually beneficial | myrmecophilous | parasitic | parasitical | qualified | reliant | reliant on(p) | strung-out | subject | subordinate | symbiotic | underage

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dependent: accessory | addicted | addicted to | adherent | ancillary | appendage | appurtenant | at issue | attendant | based on | boxed in | buff | cascading | cavaliere servente | charge | childlike | circumscribed | circumscribed by | client | collateral | conditional | conditioned | confiding | contingent | contingent on | counting | courtier | creature | credulous | dangler | dangling | debased | dependent on | depending | depending on | depending on circumstances | disciple | encumbrance | exposed | falling | falling loosely | fan | feudal | feudatory | flowing | flunky | follower | following | guileless | habituated | habitue | hanger-on | hanging | hedged about by | heeler | henchman | hinging on | homager | homme de cour | hooked | hooked on | humbled | hung | iffy | in a rut | in question | in suspense | in the balance | incident to | incidental to | inferior | innocent | lackey | liable | liege | liege man | limited | man | minion | myrmidon | naive | never free from | open | parasite | partisan | pendent | pending | pendulant | pendular | penduline | pendulous | pensile | pensionary | pensioner | peon | predicated on | protege | provisional | provisory | public | public charge | pursuer | pursuivant | reckoning | relative | reliant | relying | restricted | retainer | revolving on | satellite | secondary | sectary | serf | servant | servile | shadow | slave | spaced out | stooge | sub | subject | subject to | subordinate | subservient | successor | supporter | susceptible | suspended | suspenseful | swinging | tagtail | tail | trainbearer | tributary | trustful | trusting | trusty | turning on | uncertain | uncounted | undecided | under | underling | understrapper | undetermined | unestablished | unfixed | unsettled | unsuspecting | unsuspicious | untold | up for grabs | used to | vassal | votary | ward | ward heeler | weeping | without suspicion | yeoman

See Also | charge | minion | receiver | recipient | unfree

Dependent In Webster's Dictionary

\De*pend"ent\, a. [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; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. --Macaulay. {Dependent covenant} or {contract} (Law), one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed. {Dependent variable} (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.
\De*pend"ent\, n. 1. One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of 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. --Hallam. 2. That which depends; corollary; consequence. With all its circumstances and dependents. --Prynne. Note: See the Note under {Dependant}.

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