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| Main Entry: | dependent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, helpless |
| Synonyms: | clinging, debased, defenseless, immature, indigent, inferior, lesser, minor, poor, secondary, subordinate, under, vulnerable, abased, counting on, humbled, reliant, relying on, tied to apron strings, under thumb, unsustaining |
| Antonyms: | independent, mature, strong, unreliant |
| Main Entry: | dependent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contingent, determined by |
| Synonyms: | ancillary, conditional, reckoning, relative, subject to, subordinate, subservient, susceptible, trusting, accessory to, appurtenant, controlled by, counting, depending, incidental to, liable to, provisory, regulated by, reliant, relying, sustained by, under control of |
| Antonyms: | free, independent |
| Main Entry: | addicted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dependent on something, compulsive |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, accustomed, dependent, devoted, disposed, fanatic, fond, given to, hooked, inclined, obsessed, predisposed, spaced out*, under the influence, used to, attached, given over to, habituated, hyped, imbued, prone to, strung out, wedded to |
| Antonyms: | disinclined, independent, opposed, unaccustomed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adjective |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | word that modifies a noun |
| Synonyms: | accessory, additional, adjunct, attribute, dependent, descriptive, modifier, adnoun, attributive, identifier, qualifier |
| Main Entry: | client |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | customer |
| Synonyms: | applicant, believer, buyer, chump, consumer, dependent, disciple, follower, front, habitué, head, mark, patient, patron, protégé, purchaser, shopper, ward, protégée, walk-in |
| Antonyms: | manager, owner |
| Main Entry: | collateral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect, secondary |
| Synonyms: | accessory, accompanying, ancillary, attendant, auxiliary, circuitous, coincident, complementary, concomitant, concurrent, coordinate, corresponding, corroborative, dependent, incident, lateral, parallel, related, roundabout, satellite, side, sub, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, supporting, tributary, under, added, adjunctive, adjuvant, appurtenant, confirmatory, not lineal |
| Antonyms: | chief, direct, main, primary, principal |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
| Synonyms: | crude, dependent, dominion, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, pilgrim, pioneer, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild, early American, outland, prerevolutionary, transplanted |
| Antonyms: | modern, new |
| Main Entry: | contingent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conditional; possible |
| Synonyms: | accidental, casual, chance, dependent, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, likely, odd, probable, probably, random, subject to, uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unpredictable, controlled by, unanticipated |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, real, sure, truthful, unconditional |
| Main Entry: | eventual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future, concluding |
| Synonyms: | conditional, consequent, contingent, dependent, ending, ensuing, final, hindmost, indirect, inevitable, last, later, latter, overall, possible, prospective, secondary, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, vicarious, closing, down the pike, down the road, endmost, in the cards, resulting, succeeding |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | hanger-on |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who attends the powerful for status or benefit |
| Synonyms: | dependent, flunky*, follower, freeloader*, lackey*, leech*, nuisance, parasite, sycophant, sponger*, truckler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | helpless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incapable, incompetent; vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, destitute, disabled, exposed, feeble, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, impotent, inefficient, inexpert, infirm, invalid, over a barrel*, paralyzed, powerless, prostrate, shiftless, unable, unfit, unprotected, weak, basket-case, handcuffed, pinned, tapped, tapped out, up creek without paddle, with hands tied |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, competent, enterprising, independent, resourceful, skilled, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | addicted |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, dependent, devoted, enamored, obsessed, prone, under the influence, captivated, strung out |
| Main Entry: | minion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sycophant |
| Synonyms: | brownnoser*, dependent, fan, flatterer, flunky*, follower, groupie, hanger-on*, lackey, parasite, puppet, slave, stooge*, subordinate, toady, yes-person, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlicker, doormat, fawner, yes-man/woman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant, small |
| Synonyms: | accessory, bush-league*, casual, dependent, dinky*, inconsequential, inferior, junior, lesser, light, low, minus, negligible, paltry, petty, piddling, secondary, slight, small-time, smaller, subordinate, subsidiary, tacky, trifling, trivial, two-bit*, unimportant, below the mark, inconsiderable, second-string, small-fry, younger |
| Antonyms: | adult, large, major, significant, greater |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mutual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shared, common |
| Synonyms: | bilateral, collective, communal, connected, convertible, dependent, give-and-take*, interchangeable, joint, public, reciprocal, related, respective, returned, united, associated, conjoint, conjunct, correlative, given and taken, interactive, interchanged, interdependent, intermutual, partaken, participated, reciprocated, requited, two-sided |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Antonyms: | detached, distinct, separate, dissociated, unshared |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parasite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that exists by taking from or depending on another |
| Synonyms: | barnacle, bloodsucker*, deadbeat*, dependent, flunky, freeloader*, groupie*, hanger-on*, idler, leech, sponge*, stooge*, sucker, sycophant, bootlicker, scrounger, taker |
| Antonyms: | blessing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pauper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is poor |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beggar, bum, dependent, destitute, down-and-out*, indigent, insolvent, mendicant, almsperson, have-not, homeless person, in the gutter, lazarus, poor person, supplicant |
| Antonyms: | rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | about to happen |
| Synonyms: | awaiting, continuing, dependent, forthcoming, hanging, imminent, impending, indeterminate, ominous, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, up in the air, in line, in the balance, in the offing, in the works, on board, on line, pensile |
| Antonyms: | improbable, unlikely |
| Main Entry: | pendulous/pendent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hanging |
| Synonyms: | dangling, dependent, drooping, pending, suspended, swinging, pendulant, pensile |
| Main Entry: | possible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely, attainable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, achievable, adventitious, advisable, available, breeze*, cinch, conceivable, credible, dependent, desirable, dormant, duck soup*, easy as pie*, expedient, feasible, fortuitous, hopeful, hypothetical, imaginable, indeterminate, latent, obtainable, piece of cake*, potential, practicable, probable, promising, pushover*, setup, snap, thinkable, uncertain, viable, welcome, workable, can do, doable, no sweat, realizable, simple as ABC, within reach |
| Antonyms: | impossible, unlikely, unattainable, ungettable, unrealizable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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