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adj. Contingent on another.

adj. Subordinate.

adj. Relying on or requiring the aid of another for support: dependent children.

adj. Hanging down.

n. One who relies on another especially for financial support.

adj. Relying upon; depending upon

adj. : standing only after a preverbal particle

adj. Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.

adj. affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine

n. One who relies on another for support

n. An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements modifiers and determiners.

n. The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.

adj. Hanging down.

adj. 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. Opposite of independent.

adj. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional.

adj. addicted to drugs.

n. One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for financial support or favor; a hanger-on; a retainer.

n. That which depends; corollary; consequence.

Hanging down; pendent: as, a dependent leaf.

Subordinate; subject to, under the control of, or needing aid from some extraneous source: as, the dependent condition of childhood; all men are largely dependent upon one another.

Contingent; resultant; derived from as a source; related to some ground or condition: as, an effect may be dependent on some unknown cause.

Relative: as, dependent beauty (which see, under beauty).

In law, conditioned on something else: as, the covenant of the purchaser of land to pay for it is usually so expressed in the contract of purchase as to be dependent on performance of the vendor's covenant to convey. Such covenants are usually mutually dependent.

n. One who depends on or looks to another for support or favor; a retainer: as, the prince was followed by a numerous train of dependents.

n. That which depends on something else; a consequence; a corollary.

n. [As the spelling of this class of words depends solely upon whether they happen to be regarded as derived directly from the French or directly from the Latin, and as usage is divided, there is no good reason for insisting upon a distinction in spoiling between the noun and the adjective, as is done by many, the former being spelled dependant and the latter dependent.]

adj. being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

adj. held from above

n. a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)

adj. contingent on something else

adj. addicted to a drug

adj. (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence

adj. relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed

"Preferring the term dependent to interdependent is more than an acknowledgement that dependence (of all) necessarily implies inter-dependence."

subordinate    supported    conditional    addicted    mutualist    leechlike    interdependent    parasitical    symbiotic    myrmecophilous   

conditional    relative    subordinate    accessory    dependency    dependent covenant   

co-dependent    independent    dependent clause    depend    dependent variable    depending   

subordinate    addicted    drug-addicted    hooked    strung-out    hanger-on    retainer    corollary    consequence    hanging   

ascendant    attendant    defendant    descendant    descendent    independent    interdependent    pendant    resplendent    superintendant   

vulnerable    weak    hostile    responsible    independent    different    inferior    degrade    depress    sensitive