| Noun | 1. | dependent - a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)charge - a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street" minion - a servile or fawning dependant | |
| Adj. | 1. | dependent - not independent; "dependent children"unfree - hampered and not free; not able to act at will independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic" | |
| 2. | dependent - contingent on something elseconditional - imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid" | |
| 3. | dependent - 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"grammar - studies of the formation of basic linguistic units main, independent - of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb" main, independent - of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb" | |
| 4. | dependent - being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"subordinate - subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom" | |
| 5. | dependent - addicted to a drugaddicted - compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming; "she is addicted to chocolate"; "addicted to cocain" | |