depending on

Questions about depending on

What does depending on mean?

depending on means "being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow".

What is another word for depending on?

Close synonyms include contingent, contingent on, contingent upon, dependent on, dependant on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is depending on a common word?

depending on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.