dependent

1. Relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed (synset 300729216)
   "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture"
   also: unfree - hampered and not free; not able to act at will
   tells us about: independence, independency - freedom from control or influence of another or others
   similar to:

   • 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
2. Contingent on something else (synset 300558400)
   similar to: conditional - imposing or depending on or containing a condition
   same as: dependant, qualified
3. (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence (synset 300733914)
   "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
   referred to in: grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
   same as: subordinate
4. Held from above and hanging down (synset 302359909)
   "a pendant bunch of grapes"
   similar to: supported - held up or having the weight borne especially from below
   same as: pendant, pendent
5. Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others (synset 302337856)
   "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
   similar to: subordinate - subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
   same as: subject
6. Addicted to a drug (synset 300047626)
   similar to: addicted - compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming
   same as: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out

1. A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) (synset 110024466)
   is a type of: receiver, recipient - a person who receives something
   subtypes:

   • charge - a person committed to your care
   • minion - a servile or fawning dependant
   same as: dependant

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