DEPENDED Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

depended

verb

past tense of depend

as in based

to be determined by, based on, or subject (to) whether or not we play baseball will depend on how much rain we get

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Relevance

as in relied

to place reliance or trust I know I can always depend on you for help when I really need it

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Recent Examples of depended Independent businesses that once depended on customers walking through their doors gained the opportunity to reach shoppers anywhere, competing with national chains in ways that would have been unimaginable before. — Dax Dasilva, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 In June 2023, when the column of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner paramilitary company moved up the highway toward Moscow, Putin depended on his security services to tell him what was happening. — Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026 The Sparrows’ survival under Nazi questioning depended on the Hungarians handing them over to law-respecting German military officers, rather than the murderous Gestapo. — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026 The organization said some attacks were carried out unilaterally, but most depended on the cooperation or exploitation of institutions in the host country. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026 Historically, advisory has often depended on the knowledge, instincts and sometimes even the personal relationships of individual partners. — Bas Kniphorst, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Regional states have long depended on outside powers while seeking greater strategic autonomy. — John Calabrese, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026 At the same time, as the Burke Museum notes, the low-lying forests of nut and beech trees the birds depended on were cleared for farmland as settlement spread west. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026 Their survival depended not only on tools, but on movement, teaching and the collective preservation of knowledge. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for depended

Verb

These firms charge fees based on the value of their holdings, adding a financial incentive to keep the marks higher to avoid public scrutiny.

— Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The game show is based around those ubiquitous internet verification tests that check if the visitor to a website is human or a bot.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of based

Verb

Many off-grid communities have long relied on costly, polluting diesel generators.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Obama himself relied heavily on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force — passed by Congress under Bush — in his military campaign against Islamic State during his presidency.

— Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of relied

Verb

Towns finished with eight points, seven rebounds and three assists but turned the ball over three times, shot two-of-seven from the field, and lost his positional matchup to Davis, the former perennial All-Star whose career was derailed by injury.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
In 2025, Tasveer acquired the Ark Lodge Cinema in Seattle’s Columbia City and turned it into the Tasveer Film Center, which shows international cinema every day of the week.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of turned

Verb

That changed two weeks ago, when one death was finally counted, and again last week when a second was added to the agency's tally.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Of course, there’s still an election to be held, votes to be cast and ballots to be counted.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026