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Defenition of the word dependent

    • Defenition of the word dependent

      • Relying upon; depending upon.
      • a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
      • not independent; "dependent children"
      • addicted to a drug
      • contingent on something else
      • (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"
      • being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
      • 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"
      • relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
      • (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
      • being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
      • held from above

    Synonyms for the word dependent

      • dependant
      • drug-addicted
      • hooked
      • needy
      • qualified
      • reliant
      • strung-out
      • subject
      • subordinate

    Similar words in the dependent

      • addicted
      • babelike
      • bloodsucking
      • conditional
      • dependent
      • dependent on
      • dependent's
      • dependents
      • helpless
      • interdependent
      • leechlike
      • mutualist
      • mutually beneficial
      • myrmecophilous
      • parasitic
      • parasitical
      • reliant
      • reliant on
      • subordinate
      • symbiotic
      • underage
      • unfree

    Hyponyms for the word dependent

      • charge
      • minion

    Hypernyms for the word dependent

      • receiver
      • recipient

    Antonyms for the word dependent

      • independent
      • main
      • main(a)

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