Word Meanings - WANKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not to be depended on; weak; unstable. Grose.

Related words: (words related to WANKLE)

• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• DEPENDENCY
  1. State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that
• DEPENDABLE
  Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.
• DEPENDER
  One who depends; a dependent.
• UNSTABLE
  Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable.
• DEPEND
  Etym: 1. To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope. 2. To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court. You will
• DEPENDENTLY
  In a dependent manner.
• DEPENDANT; DEPENDANCE; DEPENDANCY
  See DEPENDENT
• DEPENDINGLY
  As having dependence. Hale.
• DEPENDENCE
  1. The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support. 2. The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection . The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon
• INDEPENDENCY
  Doctrine and polity of the Independents. (more info) 1. Independence. "Give me," I cried , "My bread, and independency!" Pope.
• SELF-DEPENDING
  Depending on one's self.
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• INTERDEPENDENCY
  Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests. De Quincey.
• INDEPENDENCE
  1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as
• INTERDEPENDENCE
  Mutual dependence. "The interdependence of virtue and knowledge." M. Arnold.
• INDEPENDENT
  Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents. (more info) 1. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but
• SELF-DEPENDENT
  Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.
• INDEPENDENTLY
  In an independent manner; without control.
• INDEPENDENCE DAY
  In the United States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776.