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dependent de·pend·ent

Spelling: [dih-pen-duh nt]

IPA: /dɪˈpɛn dənt/

Dependent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in dependent (ddeeennpt).

Definitions for dependent

noun

1. a person who depends on or needs someone or something for aid, support, favor, etc.
2. a child, spouse, parent, or certain other relative to whom one contributes all or a major amount of necessary financial support:
3. Archaic. a subordinate part.

adjective

1. relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
2. conditioned or determined by something else; contingent:
3. subordinate; subject:
4. Grammar. not used in isolation; used only in connection with other forms. In I walked out when the bell rang, when the bell rang is a dependent clause. Compare independent (def 14), main1 (def 4).
5. hanging down; pendent.
6. Mathematics. (of a variable) having values determined by one or more independent variables. (of an equation) having solutions that are identical to those of another equation or to those of a set of equations.
7. Statistics. (of an event or a value) not statistically independent.

Origin of dependent

First recorded in 1375-1425, dependent is from the late Middle English word dependaunt. See depend, -ent

Examples for dependent

In 2014, any dependent youth who earns more than $6,200 will have to report those earnings to the IRS.

We were both too young, too dependent and helpless, to do anything but accept our separation.

Seven of the ten Congressional candidates most dependent on the money of the ultra-rich were Democrats.

But she could not get her mother's feeling of him as a helpless, dependent thing.

I know little of them; and happily we shall not be dependent on the result of my management.

Much of our ability is dependent on two rocket engines, the RD-180 and the NK-33/AJ26.

We feel ourselves so dependent on it for all that is yet to come.

The bacteria are dependent on the nutrients being supplied to them in the lab.

Nay, would his uncle, on whom he was dependent, consent to such a refusal?

My living is dependent on that reputation and I worked hard to earn it.