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Dependent   /dɪpˈɛndənt/   Listen
adjective
Dependent  adj.  
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."
3.
Conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional.
Synonyms: qualified.
4.
Addicted to drugs.
Synonyms: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
Dependent covenant or Dependent 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.


noun
Dependent  n.  
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."
2.
That which depends; corollary; consequence. "With all its circumstances and dependents." Note: See the Note under Dependant.





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"Dependent" Quotes from Famous Books



... mankind, and it is mighty well that we cannot do this for the insects are as important to us as all other life, for without them we would be unable to produce the vast quantities of foods that are now dependent upon such insect life. It is true that they take their toll of the food that they are instrumental in sometimes producing but when one attempts to unravel the mystery of balance of nature one is confronted ...
— Growing Nuts in the North • Carl Weschcke
... dependent on myself in this rough world again, yes, I fear he did indeed,' sobbed ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... from the fever swamps. The Italian forces were camped just under my window and he stench of unwashed men and sweaty uniforms penetrated the miserable garret I slept in with suffocating acridity. I lay awake for hours thinking of the fate of thousands of human beings dependent on such men as Petar Karageorgevitch, with his blood-stained hands; his hoary father-in-law, Nikola, weaving spider webs; the decadent Russian, fanatical and cruel; the Levantine Slav, agent of France; ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith
... Dependent as they were on the man's guidance through the darkness amongst the enclosures, the fugitives left him to himself for a few moments, wondering what he was about ...
— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn
... without him, even in sunshine, the awfulness of the desolation of it, the horror of its distances. And realising this she also realised the uncertainty of the human life in connection with any other human life. To be dependent on another is to double the sum of the terrors of uncertainty. ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens


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