Definition of Dependent

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Dependent

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends.

One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.

That which depends; corollary; consequence.

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Dependent Quotations

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
Gottfried Leibniz

Dependent Translations

dependent in Dutch is afhankelijk, onderhorig
dependent in French is tributaire
dependent in Italian is dipendente
dependent in Portuguese is dependente
dependent in Spanish is dependiente

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