EGAVE

dependent

About 45.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Relying upon; depending upon.
    At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition.
  2. adjective Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
  3. adjective Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
  4. adjective Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
  5. adjective Hanging down.
    a dependent bough or leaf
  6. noun A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
    With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.
  7. noun An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

reliant dependant qualified interdependent subject subordinate conditional mutualist underage helpless

Often followed by

on upon variable variables and children for diabetes in

Word family

dependant dependants dependently dependents

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