1. Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
   "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture"
    
2. Contingent on something else
   "The project's success was dependent on securing additional funding";
   - qualified
    
3. (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
   "a dependent clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence";
   - subordinate
    
4. Held from above and hanging down
   "The dependent branches swayed in the breeze";
   - pendent, pendant
    
5. Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
   "a dependent prince";
   - subject
    
6. Addicted to a drug
   "The dependent patients required long-term treatment and support";
   - drug-addicted, hooked [informal], strung-out
    
7. (mathematics) determined by or relying on another variable
   "Y is the dependent variable in this equation"

1. A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
   "The tax form required listing all dependents in the household";
   - dependant [Brit]

Sounds like: dependan

Derived forms: dependents

See also: addicted, babelike, bloodsucking, conditional, helpless, independence, independency, interdependent, leechlike, mutualist, myrmecophilous, parasitic, parasitical, reliant, subordinate, supported, symbiotic, underage, unfree

Type of: receiver, recipient

Antonym: independent

Encyclopedia: Dependent