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
   - dependant, 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
   - pendent, pendant 
5. Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
   "a dependent prince"
   - subject 
6. Addicted to a drug
   - dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out

1. A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
   - dependant

Derived forms: dependents

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

Type of: receiver, recipient

Antonym: independent

Encyclopedia: Dependent

• Pediculus
• Pediculus capitis
• Pediculus corporis
• Pediculus humanus
• pedicure
• pedigree
• pedigreed
• Pedilanthus
• Pedilanthus bracteatus
• Pedilanthus pavonis
• Pedilanthus tithymaloides
• pediment
• pedimental
• Pediocactus
• Pediocactus knowltonii
• Pedioecetes
• Pedioecetes phasianellus
• Pedionomus
• Pedionomus torquatus
• pedipalp
• Pedipalpi
• pedlar
• pedodontist
• pedology
• pedometer