- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
DEPENDENT
DE ·PEN ·DENT 3 syllables
B1 · Intermediate 📏 9 letters 🎲 Scrabble 13 ✅ valid word
Useful in everyday and work contexts.
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- contingent on something else
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- held from above and hanging down
💬 Examples
- "dependent children"
- "dependent on moisture"
- "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
- "a pendant bunch of grapes"