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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



... ecclesiastic fagots. The former outchatters the Duke of Newcastle; and the latter Madame de Gisors, exhausts Mr. Pitt's eloquence in defense of the Archbishop of Paris. Monsieur de Nivernois lives in a small circle of dependent admirers, and Madame de Rochfort is high-priestess for a ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... exaggerated precautions, and, on the other hand, no harshness, no punishments. We must love the child, and encourage his playing. To make him realize his weakness and the narrow limits within which it can work, to keep the child dependent only on circumstances, will suffice, without ever making him feel the yoke ...
— Emile - or, Concerning Education; Extracts • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... Franz as a song composer, or, perhaps, to express it more accurately, the art-limitation, is that the musical inspiration is directly dependent on the poetic strength of the Lied. He would be utterly at a loss to treat a poem which lacked beauty and force. With but little command over absolute music, that flow of melody which pours from some natures like a perennial spring, the poetry of word is necessary ...
— The Great German Composers • George T. Ferris
... have deceived you; you should have brought more goods, but I do not blame you." I then told him, that I had brought from England only ammunition, tobacco, and spirits; and that being ignorant what other articles the Indians required, we were dependent on the traders for supplies; but he must be aware, that every endeavour had been used on our parts to procure them, as was evinced by Mr. Back's journey to Fort Chipewyan. With respect to the ammunition and ...
— Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 • John Franklin
... 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


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