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View synonyms for reliant

reliant

[ ri-lahy-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. having or showing dependence:

    reliant on money from home.

  2. confident; trustful.


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Other Words From

  • re·liant·ly adverb
  • over·re·liant adjective
  • unre·liant adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of reliant1

First recorded in 1855–60; rely + -ant

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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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