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Dependent   /dɪpˈɛndənt/   Listen
Dependent

adjective
1.
Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed.  "Dependent on moisture"
2.
Contingent on something else.  Synonyms: dependant, qualified.
3.
(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence.  Synonym: subordinate.
4.
Held from above.  Synonyms: pendant, pendent.
5.
Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others.  Synonym: subject.  "A dependent prince"
6.
Addicted to a drug.  Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
noun
1.
A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support).  Synonym: dependant.



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"Dependent" Quotes from Famous Books



... And it places the ministry in a dependent attitude. But under our system it's unavoidable. Young men devoting themselves to the ministry ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells
... war of independence was the one absorbing and controlling interest in Christendom. Upon that vast, central, and, as men thought, baleful constellation the fates of humanity, were dependent. Around it lesser political events were forced to gravitate, and, in accordance to their relation to it, were bright or obscure. It was inevitable that those whose vocation it was to ponder the aspects of the political firmament, the sages and high-priests ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... all I could do to keep the old hulk from foundering', at that, but I stuck to the wheel day after day and night after night. To keep from freezin' I had to drink a lot of grog. Oh, a powerful lot of grog. So much grog that I've been dependent on it ever since—and I'll take a little now, if it's agreeable." It wasn't exactly agreeable, but he got it and continued. "Finally we fetched up, ker-smack, on the rocks of a desert island. All the boats had been smashed and carried away ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard
... it be true that life is but a manifestation of the ordinary forces of matter,—which are common to both dead and living matter,—being dependent upon arrangement, then why may it not be that dead matter may, through the action of molecular laws, and without the intervention of any living existence, assume those peculiar forms of arrangement necessary to constitute life, as supposed ...
— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg
... preparation of one or two hot dishes to supplement the lunch brought from home. Owing to the fact that many pupils live far from the school, it is impossible for them to go home for the mid-day meal, and they are thus dependent upon lunches which they bring with them. Very frequently the pupils are allowed to eat their lunches where and how they please, and the method chosen is conducive neither to comfort nor to health. In fine weather they do ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools • Ministry of Education Ontario


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