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单词 dependent
释义
dependent
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nadj

Being dependent means relying on something. Many people are dependent on coffee in the morning, while a dependent is someone who relies on you for financial support. In grammar-land, a dependent clause can’t stand alone because it’s a fragment.
Dependent comes from pendant, the French word for "hanging.” If you break your leg, you will be dependent, or hanging, on crutches to get around. Kids are dependents of their parents, since they rely on them for food and shelter. A drug addict is dependent on drugs. And if a decision is dependent on your mood, that means it depends on or will be decided by how you feel.
WORD FAMILY
dependent: dependence, dependency, dependently, dependents, independent+/depend: dependable, dependant, depended, dependent, depending, depends, interdepend/dependable: dependability, dependableness, dependably, undependable/dependant: dependants/dependence: dependences/dependency: dependencies/independence: independences/independency: independencies/independent: independence, independency, independently, independents/interdepend: interdependent/interdependence: interdependences/interdependency: interdependencies/interdependent: interdependence, interdependency, interdependently/undependable: undependability, undependableness
USAGE EXAMPLES
Metabolic activity is dependent on oxygen delivery to the tissues of the body.
Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)
The defense is too dependent on Clay Matthews to generate a pass rush, so when he’s not 100% the drop-off is significant.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016)
Coburn attributes that to a broken system abused by those who don’t truly deserve it, yet grow dependent on government benefits.
Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016)
1n a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
dependant
charge
a person committed to your care
minion
a servile or fawning dependant
receiver, recipient
a person who receives something
2adj contingent on something else
Syn
dependant, qualified
conditional
imposing or depending on or containing a condition
3adj relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
dependent children
dependent on moisture
Syn|Ant
babelike
like a baby especially in dependence
helpless
unable to manage independently
interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial
mutually dependent
myrmecophilous
living symbiotically with ants
bloodsucking, leechlike, parasitic, parasitical
of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another
reliant
relying on another for support
symbiotic
used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
underage
dependent by virtue of youth
unfree
hampered and not free; not able to act at will
independent
free from external control and constraint
autarkic, autarkical
of countries; not relying on imports
autonomous, self-directed, self-reliant
(of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
autonomous
existing as an independent entity
breakaway, fissiparous, separatist
having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
commutative
(of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a"
free-living, nonparasitic, nonsymbiotic
not parasitic on another organism
indie
(of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company
case-by-case, individual, item-by-item
separate and distinct from others of the same kind
self-sufficient, self-sufficing, self-sustaining
able to provide for your own needs without help from others
self-supporting
financially independent
single-handed
without help from others
strong-minded
marked by vigorous independence of thought and judgment
unaffiliated
not affiliated
unconditional
not contingent; not determined or influenced by someone or something else
free
able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
separate
independent; not united or joint
4adj held from above
Syn
pendant, pendent
supported
held up or having the weight borne especially from below
5adj being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
a dependent prince
Syn
subject
subordinate
subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
6adj addicted to a drug
Syn
dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out
addicted
compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming
7adj (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
Syn|Ant
subordinate
independent, main
(of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
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