Contingent

Definition:

• (a.) Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
• (a.) Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.
• (a.) Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.
• (n.) An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
• (n.) That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.

Compare contingent with other words:

contingent vs. possible

continent vs. contingent

contingent vs. tangent

contingent vs. conviction

contiguous vs. contingent

contingent vs. provisional

concomitance vs. contingent

contingent vs. stipulate

contingent vs. lax

collateral vs. contingent

contingent vs. necessary

contingent vs. temporary

contingent vs. requirement

contingent vs. required

contingent vs. mobile

conditional vs. contingent

contingent vs. haphazard

contingent vs. subject

contingent vs. planned

contingent vs. contingently

analytic vs. contingent

categorical vs. contingent

contingence vs. contingent

contact vs. contingent

contingent vs. contingentness

contingent vs. logic

casual vs. contingent

contingent vs. unknown

contingent vs. incidental

contingent vs. occur

certain vs. contingent

contingent vs. troops

contingent vs. liable

contingent vs. quota

contingent vs. proportion

contingent vs. share

apportionment vs. contingent

contingent vs. division

contingency vs. contingent

contingent vs. dependent

contingent vs. event

contingent vs. fortuitous

contingent vs. hypothetical

contingent vs. detail

contingent vs. independent

annuity vs. contingent

accidental vs. contingent