RELIANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reliant mean? 

• RELIANT (adjective)
  The adjective RELIANT has 1 sense:

1. relying on another for support

  Familiarity information: RELIANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relying on another for support

Context example:

dependent on Middle Eastern oil

Similar:

dependent (relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed)

Derivation:

reliance (the state of relying on something)

rely (have faith or confidence in)

 Context examples 

It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I led the same secretly unhappy life; but I led it in the same lonely, self-reliant manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As a lysosomotropic agent, hydroxychloroquine raises intralysosomal pH, impairing autophagic protein degradation; hydroxychloroquine-mediated accumulation of ineffective autophagosomes may result in cell death in tumor cells reliant on autophagy for survival.

(Hydroxychloroquine, NCI Thesaurus)

I feared, oh so much, that the appalling nature of our danger was overcoming him when I saw his hand stretch out; but it was life to me to feel its touch—so strong, so self-reliant, so resolute.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He being of the same mind, and equally reliant on her, we suffered her to take her own road, and took ours, which was towards Highgate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Trot, have you got to be firm and self-reliant?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On our way back, my aunt informed me how she confidently trusted that the life I was now to lead would make me firm and self-reliant, which was all I wanted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly—persevering, self-reliant, self-denying!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was such deep fondness for him, and gratitude to him for all his love and care, in her beautiful look; and there was such a fervent appeal to me to deal tenderly by him, even in my inmost thoughts, and to let no harsh construction find any place against him; she was, at once, so proud of him and devoted to him, yet so compassionate and sorry, and so reliant upon me to be so, too; that nothing she could have said would have expressed more to me, or moved me more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)