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reliant

reliant adjective: having reliance on somebody or something.

Adjective

reliant (comparative more reliant, superlative most reliant)

  1. Having reliance on somebody or something.
    • The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26
    • Brown heavily sympathises with the challenges now being faced by his successor Andy Byford and Mayor Sadiq Khan, to secure a more sustainable funding formula for TfL that is less reliant on farebox income.2020 November 18, Mike Brown tells Paul Stephen, “I wasn't going to let the Mayor down”, in Rail, page 44

reliant meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam

reliant in Hindi

having reliance on somebody or something
आश्रित āśrit, निर्भर nirbhar

reliant in Tamil

நம்புகிற

reliant in Malayalam

വിശ്വാസമുളള, ആശ്രയിക്കുന്ന

Examples of reliant in a sentence

  • Athos and Cetaganda are the two worlds of the Vorkosiverse most reliant on uterine replicator births.
  • The club is therefore completely reliant on Crosby and Co. to carry the mail up front.
  • The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths.

All 18 example sentences with reliant

Forms of reliant

comparativemore reliant
superlativemost reliant

Origin of reliant

From rely + -ant.

Words formed from reliant

Words that rhyme with reliant

Questions about reliant

What does reliant mean?
Reliant means having reliance on somebody or something.
What is reliant in Hindi?
Reliant in Hindi is आश्रित (āśrit), निर्भर (nirbhar). See Reliant meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is reliant?
Reliant is an adjective.

Words near reliant in the dictionary

  1. reliableness
  2. reliables
  3. reliably
  4. reliance
  5. reliances
  6. reliant
  7. reliantly
  8. reliberate
  9. reliberated
  10. reliberates
  11. reliberating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reliant (page history and authors); reliant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reliant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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