n. a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)

adj. not independent; "dependent children"

adj. being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"

adj. contingent on something else

adj. addicted to a drug

n. a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"

n. a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another

adj. directed toward a specific object; "particularized thinking as distinct from stereotyped sloganeering"

adj. (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence; "incidental expenses"; "the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the job"; "labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion"; "confusion incidental to a quick change"

adj. hampered and not free; not able to act at will

adj. of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

adj. having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; "an associate member"; "an associate professor"

adj. of the lowest rank in a category: "a buck private"

adj. acting as substitute for another

adj. subject to a ruling authority; "the ruled mass"

adj. belonging to a lower class or rank

adj. compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw

adj. lower in rank, power, or authority; "an under secretary"

adj. going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)

adj. determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress"

adj. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"

adj. subject to a proviso; "a provisory clause"

adj. addicted to alcohol; "alcoholic expatriates in Paris"- Carl Van Doren

adj. having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker"

adj. free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic"

adj. existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"

adj. (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

adj. independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"

adj. greatest in status or authority or power; "a supreme tribunal"