interdependent

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
14

Definition of interdependent

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Mutually dependent; reliant on one another.
    “The whole tone of my book is […]to urge that the morality which has been by our necessities developed in the society of individuals must also be applied to the society of nations as that society becomes by virtue of our development more interdependent.”
    “Sooner or later it may dawn upon the present generation that it has witnessed and is witnessing the birth of a new world of interdependent peoples, in which many of the old names and shibboleths have either changed their meanings or lost them entirely.”
    “All life on our planet exists only because we are enmeshed within a complex web of interdependent ecological and social systems.”
    “Steeped in a culture telling us to think of ourselves as consumers instead of citizens, as self-reliant instead of interdependent, is it any wonder we deal with a systemic issue by turning in droves to ineffectual, individual efforts?”
    “Instead, think of Congress and the Fed as interdependent institutions — a political relationship that constrains the Fed’s conduct.”

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Etymology

From inter- + dependent.

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