Antonyms for depend uponde·pend up·on

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1. depend uponverb

   Antonyms:
   distrust, doubt, doubt, mistrust, surmise, suspect

   Synonyms:
   believe, confide in, depend on, rely on, rely upon, trust

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. depend on, devolve on, depend upon, ride, turn on, hinge on, hinge uponverb

   be contingent on

   "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"; "Your grade will depends on your homework"

   Synonyms:
   rely upon, trip out, excite, drive, get off, sit, trip, tease, commove, agitate, tantalise, cod, rally, hinge on, turn on, arouse, sex, ride, depend on, devolve on, hinge upon, bait, razz, charge, tantalize, charge up, rouse, taunt, rag, wind up, mount, switch on, twit, rely on

2. depend on, depend upon, rely on, rely uponverb

   put trust in with confidence

   "she is someone you can really rely on when times get rough"; "you can rely on his discretion"

   Synonyms:
   rely on, devolve on, ride, depend on, turn on, rely upon, hinge upon, hinge on

How to use depend upon in a sentence?

1. Arthur Conan Doyle:

   Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

2. Chaim Potok:

   [My father] taught me with silence. . .to look into myself, to find my own strength, to walk around inside myself in company with my soul. . . . One learns of the pain of others by suffering one’s own pain … by turning inside oneself. . . . It makes us aware of how frail and tiny we are and of how much we must depend upon the Master of the Universe.

3. Roger Marshall:

   This 25 or 50 cent hike has been created by Joe Biden because he made us depend upon Russian oil, we're funding that darn warover there. So the short-term solution is to give American energy certainty, and they will go to work.

4. Frabcus M. Faber Jt.:

   Does a 'Stair-way' very much or does it depend upon the number pf steps and risers:

5. Laurence Sterne:

   First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

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