English-Spanish translations for dependent

• dependiente
  Europa es altamente dependiente de la energía importada. Europe is highly dependent on imported energy.
  Cuarto, el supuesto Kosovo independiente es completamente dependiente. Fourthly, so-called independent Kosovo is completely dependent.
  Sin duda, estas cuestiones son mutuamente dependientes. These issues are, of course, mutually dependent.

Definition of dependent

• Relying upon; depending upon
• Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event
• Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions
• Hanging down
• One who relies on another for support
• An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners

Examples

• At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition
• a dependent bough or leaf
• With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.

Related words

• independent
• independently
• interdependent
• dependently
• independentize
• Independentism
• independentist
• independentism
• weather-dependent