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reliant
[ ri-lahy-uhnt ]
adjective
- having or showing dependence:
reliant on money from home.
- confident; trustful.
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Other Words From
- re·liant·ly adverb
- over·re·liant adjective
- unre·liant adjective
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Example Sentences
Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.
That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
As a result, American and British prisoners are almost solely reliant on dangerous military efforts to free them.
And she credits her mother for helping to establish who that woman was early on: independent, free, self-reliant.
Non-U.S. companies, much more reliant on exports, cannot afford to do that.
As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.
The trait is not rare in mankind in general, but it is exceptional in men of a character so self-reliant and decided as Nelson.
But you must be self-reliant, and put them on the list of experiments.
It's a good House—good boys—manly, self-reliant, purposeful.
Once on this I became over-reliant, and in consequence sank several times into narrow fissures.
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