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Dependent vs Despairing - What's the difference?

dependent | despairing |

As nouns the difference between dependent and despairing

is that dependent is while despairing is a mood or display of despair.

As an adjective despairing is

feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

As a verb despairing is

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dependent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relying upon; depending upon.
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  • Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.
  • (medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
  • Hanging down.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) One who relies on another for support
    • With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.)
  • (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
  • (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.

    • Synonyms

    * dependant

    Related terms

    * dependee * depender

    Related terms

    * depend * dependent clause * dependent variable * depending * independent * co-dependent ----

    despairing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mood or display of despair.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
    • But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdrockh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.