Definition of "dependent" []

Contingent on another. (adjective)
Subordinate. (adjective)
Relying on or requiring the aid of another for support: dependent children. (adjective)
Hanging down. (adjective)
One who relies on another especially for financial support. (noun)
Contingent on another. (adjective)
Contingent on another. (adjective)
Subordinate. (adjective)
Subordinate. (adjective)
Relying on or requiring the aid of another for support: dependent children. (adjective)
Relying on or requiring the aid of another for support: dependent children. (adjective)
Hanging down. (adjective)
Hanging down. (adjective)
One who relies on another especially for financial support. (noun)
One who relies on another especially for financial support. (noun)

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Use "dependent" in a sentence

"Preferring the term dependent to interdependent is more than an acknowledgement that dependence (of all) necessarily implies inter-dependence."
"Preferring the term dependent to interdependent is more than an acknowledgement that dependence (of all) necessarily implies inter-dependence."
"From an epistemological point of view, this makes our ability to pick out the extension of a term dependent on our knowledge of its intension."
"Some U.S. officials believe Pakistan wants the U.S. to remain dependent on the ISI for that intelligence."
"Preferring the term dependent to interdependent is more than an acknowledgement that dependence (of all) necessarily implies inter-dependence."
"From an epistemological point of view, this makes our ability to pick out the extension of a term dependent on our knowledge of its intension."
"Some U.S. officials believe Pakistan wants the U.S. to remain dependent on the ISI for that intelligence."
"From an epistemological point of view, this makes our ability to pick out the extension of a term dependent on our knowledge of its intension."
"Some U.S. officials believe Pakistan wants the U.S. to remain dependent on the ISI for that intelligence."

Words like "dependent"

addicted babelike bloodsucking co-dependent conditional consequence

corollary drug-addicted hanger-on hanging helpless hooked

interdependent leechlike mutualist mutually beneficial myrmecophilous parasitical

retainer strung-out subordinate supported symbiotic underage