| dependent | |
| 1. adj. Relying upon; depending upon. | |
| At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition. | |
| 2. adj. (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event. | |
| 3. adj. (of Scottish Gaelic, Manx and Irish verb forms) Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions. | |
| 4. adj. (medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine. | |
| 5. adj. Hanging down. | |
| a dependent bough or leaf | |
| 6. n. (US) One who relies on another for support | |
| With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all. | |
| 7. n. (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners. | |
| 8. n. (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic la | |
