dependent

Meanings

Adjective

• Relying upon; depending upon.
• Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
• Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.
• Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
• Hanging down.

Noun

• One who relies on another for 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.

Related

Similar words

• dependant

Opposite words

• independent

Narrower meaning words

• language-dependent
• redshift-dependent
• system-dependent
• order-dependent

Origin

• Originally dependant, from French dépendant, present participle of dépendre (in English assimilated to Latin dēpendēns).