Synonyms for dependent
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dih-pen-duh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈpɛn dənt |
Top 10 synonyms for dependent Other synonyms for the word dependent
- abased
- accessory to
- ancillary
- appurtenant
- clinging
- controlled by
- counting on
- debased
- depending
- humbled
- immature
- incidental to
- indigent
- lesser
- liable to
- provisory
- regulated by
- relative
- relying
- relying on
- secondary
- subject to
- subordinate
- subservient
- sustained by
- tied to apron strings
- trusting
- under
- under control of
- under thumb
- unsustaining
Définition of dependent
Origin :- 15c., variant spelling of dependant, now mostly restricted to adjectival use; see -ance. Dependent variable in mathematics is recorded from 1852.
- adj weak, helpless
- adj contingent, determined by
- But she could not get her mother's feeling of him as a helpless, dependent thing.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- I know little of them; and happily we shall not be dependent on the result of my management.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Nay, would his uncle, on whom he was dependent, consent to such a refusal?
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- We feel ourselves so dependent on it for all that is yet to come.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- We were both too young, too dependent and helpless, to do anything but accept our separation.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- He was older than Dorothy, who had always been dependent upon him to a certain extent.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- As if the good name were dependent on him, or anyone like him!
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- He had not learned to be dependent on his kind for companionship.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- What does it matter—except that it's a disgrace to be dependent on such a man?
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- Poor Egbert's so dependent on him—quite helpless without him.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
Antonyms for dependent
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