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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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Etymology of 'Dependent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dependent" Quotes from Famous Books

... nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example. The conduct we blame ourselves for not following lies nearer to the middle line of human effort. It is less dependent on particular beliefs and doctrines. It is such as wears well in different ages, such as under different skies all judges ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... fewer scientific discoveries than we now have. The glasses people wear all have to be ground and polished in much the same fashion; opera glasses, magic lanterns, and every contrivance for bringing distant objects nearer or making them larger are dependent for their power ...

— The Story of Glass • Sara Ware Bassett

... were only beginning to emerge from a place in the list of products of the Quaker Hill lands to a single and special place as the only product of salable value. While the Hill people constituted a community dependent on itself and sufficient unto itself, the exceptional fitness of the "heavy clay soil" to the production of milk, butter and cheese did not assert itself, and wheat, rye, flax, apples, potatoes were raised in large quantities and ...

— Quaker Hill - A Sociological Study • Warren H. Wilson

... from what was He affected to spurn the past as a clog upon his individuality. Anticipating Walt Whitman, he would have driven away his nearest friends, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." So lightly did he pretend to esteem history that he was sure that an individual experience could explain all the ages, that each man went through in his own lifetime the Greek period, the medieval period—every period, ...

— American Sketches - 1908 • Charles Whibley

... not transcribe it upon their records, since it hath already more than sufficiently consumed our time. This vision of the lady was doubtless wrought by unwise tampering, being a vision of a nature that may gain credence with women—dependent and timid and unversed in law—but with which men and rulers have nothing ...

— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

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