Definition: 1. A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support. 2. Not independent. 3. Contingent on something else. 4. Of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence. 5. Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others. 6. Addicted to a drug.
Use 'dependent' in a sentence:
1. As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remember less?
2. It is largely dependent on the weather.
3. Employees become more dependent on machines.
4. Higher than normal levels of manganese, strontium, and vanadium probably indicate a less nutritious diet heavily dependent on edible plants.
5. The vocabulary aspect, for example, is dependent on having heard those words.
6. Children as young as ten are becoming dependent on social media for their sense of self-worth, a major study warned.
7. It turned the country into an 'aid junkie', heavily dependent on its annual fix of dollars.
8. In a world where people are increasingly dependent on their phones, though, such strategies often fail.
9. The talks were dependent on a renunciation of terrorism.
10. In his own way, he was dependent on her.
11. They will end up lonely, dependent and dissatisfied.
12. Just 26 per cent of households are married couples with dependent children.
13. All this bears directly on the Asian perception of men's and women's psychology because men are also "dependent".
14. Britain became increasingly dependent upon American technology.
15. Tolerance may lead to habituation, in which the person becomes so dependent on the drug that he or she becomes addicted to it.
16. The company is dependent on government financial help.
17. Since it knows how frequently each variable is used and which variables are dependent, it can optimize pointers and position objects in the most efficient memory spaces.
18. A court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children.
19. The charity is totally dependent on the church's bounty.
20. The nature of plant life in deserts is also highly dependent on the fact that they have to adapt to the prevailing aridity.
21. As with many gender gaps, differences in emotionality tend to be small, inconsistent, and dependent on the situation.
22. This species is highly dependent on the insect-pollinators most vulnerable to Matacil.
23. As his political stature has shrunk, he has grown correspondingly more dependent on the army.
24. Soon he becomes dependent on the expert.
25. She had grown ever more peevishly dependent on him.
26. Even when dependent on the same trade, adjoining communities could have dramatically different unemployment rates.
27. Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy.
28. The results you get from weight training are largely dependent upon how you use those weights and what type of exercise programme you follow.
29. Her behaviour was childlike and dependent.
30. I think that it comes down to the fact that people do feel very dependent on their automobile.
31. I resent being dependent on her.
32. Soil communities are dependent on plants for organic matter.
33. In addition, young children enjoy looking in mirrors, where the movements they can see are dependent upon their own movements.
34. I think that it comes down to the fact that people do feel very dependent on their automobiles.
35. Women are more likely than men to be carers of elderly dependent relatives.
36. Having rid of their bad habits, the children changed from being dependent on their parents to sacrificing for others.
37. Up to two million people there are dependent on food aid.
38. The treatment of infertility is largely dependent on the ability of couples to pay.
39. My father didn't mind whom I married, so long as I could stand on my own two feet and wasn't dependent on my husband.
40. Discipline problems are by no means restricted to children in families dependent on benefits.
41. Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding.
42. The festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship for its success.
43. A child's development is dependent on many factors.
44. A minority enterprise that secures the business of one large corporate customer often runs the danger of becoming dependent.
45. The local economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil and gas extraction.
46. You can't be dependent on your parents all your life.
47. She is still financially dependent on her parents.
48. The price is dependent on how many extras you choose.
