dependent

Meanings

Plural: dependents

Noun

• a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
• A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
• An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
• 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.
• dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.

Adjective

• relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
  • "dependent children"
  • "dependent on moisture"
• (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
  • "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"

Adjective Satellite

• contingent on something else
• held from above
• being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
  • "a dependent prince"
• addicted to a drug

Adj

• Relying upon; depending upon.
• Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
• Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
• Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
• Hanging down.

Synonyms

contingent, dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, pendant, pendent, qualified, reliant, strung-out, subject, subordinate

Antonyms

independent, self-reliant

Related Words

agreeable, correspondent, depend, dependee, dependence, dependency, dependent clause, dependent variable, depender, friendly

Anagrams of dependent