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interdependent

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Mutually dependent; reliant on one another.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

mutually dependent

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mutualist, mutually beneficial

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Indo-European *h1entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English dependent English interdependent From inter- + dependent.

Across languages

Translations

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: i ndërvarur — Mutually dependent
  • Bulgarian: взаимозависим (vzaimozavisim) — Mutually dependent
  • Catalan: interdependent — Mutually dependent
  • Dutch: wederzijds afhankelijk — Mutually dependent
  • Finnish: keskenään riippuvaiset — Mutually dependent
  • Finnish: toisistaan riippuvaiset — Mutually dependent
  • French: interdépendant — Mutually dependent
  • Galician: interdependente — Mutually dependent
  • German: voneinander abhängig — Mutually dependent
  • German: durch gegenseitige Abhängigkeiten gekennzeichnet — Mutually dependent
  • German: interdependent — Mutually dependent
  • Hungarian: egymástól függő — Mutually dependent
  • Hungarian: (egymástól) kölcsönösen függő — Mutually dependent
  • Kazakh: өзара тәуелді (özara täueldı) — Mutually dependent
  • Māori: taupuhipuhi — Mutually dependent
  • Polish: współzależny — Mutually dependent
  • Russian: взаимозави́симый (vzaimozavísimyj) — Mutually dependent
  • Spanish: interdependiente — Mutually dependent
  • Ukrainian: взаємозале́жний (vzajemozaléžnyj) — Mutually dependent