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reliant

[ ri-lahy-uhnt ]
/ rɪˈlaɪ ənt /
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adjective
having or showing dependence: reliant on money from home.
confident; trustful.
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Origin of reliant

First recorded in 1855–60; rely + -ant

OTHER WORDS FROM reliant

re·li·ant·ly, adverbo·ver·re·li·ant, adjectiveun·re·li·ant, adjective
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Words related to reliant

relying, subservient, susceptible, ancillary, appurtenant, conditional, conditioned, contingent, counting, depending, incidental to, provisory, reckoning, relative, subject, subordinate, trusting

How to use reliant in a sentence

  • So the handling of Flight 447 again raises the question of whether pilots have become over-reliant on autopilots.

    Who Was Flying Flight 447?|Clive Irving|June 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST

  • Once on this I became over-reliant, and in consequence sank several times into narrow fissures.

    The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
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