Dependent
[dɪ'pɛndənt]
Definition
(adj.) addicted to a drug .
(adj.) contingent on something else .
(adj.) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; 'dependent children'; 'dependent on moisture' .
(adj.) (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' .
Typist: Tyler--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
(a.) 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; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends.
(n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.
(n.) That which depends; corollary; consequence.
Editor: Myra
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hanging, resting, contingent, trusting, relying, subject, relative
ANT:Independent, irrelative, irrespective, absolute, free
Typist: Ollie
Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
Typed by Garrett
Examples
- I must either wrong my three dear girls or my venerable father, who is entirely dependent on me, in the Vale of Taunton; or some one. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I entirely disapprove of your doing anything for him, my dear sir, which is not dependent on his own exertions and good conduct. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Ferrars, I believe, is entirely dependent on his mother. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It trebled the output of grain, and the welfare of the people has proven largely dependent on their food supply. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But continuity of the life process is not dependent upon the prolongation of the existence of any one individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You forget your dependent position. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But this is a secondary consideration, and dependent on the preceding notions of justice and property. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Though they lived at a distance from his house, they were equally dependent upon him as his retainers who lived in it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- My pride rose against this barefaced way of pointing out the contrast my married life was to present to my then dependent and inferior position. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- You might say all that to almost any one who you knew lived as a solitary dependent in a great house. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Socially the distinction has to do with the part of life which is dependent upon authority and that where individuals are free to advance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Would you go and be dependent on your friends? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- All animals--and man is no exception--begin life as dependents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For he loved to give pleasures to his dependents and to those poorer than himself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He passed lightly over the most serious faults, because he told himself that, if he had done his part, his dependents had not fallen into them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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