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
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
Giacomo Casanova
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 dependent on effort.
Sophocles
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
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot
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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