interdependent

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US /ˌɪntɝdɪˈpɛndənt/ UK /ˌɪntədɪˈpendənt/
adj Freq #76746

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    depending on each other; mutually reliant

    The two services are interdependent, so an outage in one affects the other.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · depending on each other;... mutually dependentreciprocalconnected
More mutualist
Opposites
independentseparateself-sufficient
Word family
Derived forms interdependenceinterdependently
Related forms dependdependent

Etymology

From inter- (between, among) + dependent. The prefix marks dependence running in more than one direction.

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