Synonyms of relying

relying

verb

present participle of rely

as in depending

to place reliance or trust

rigorously tested the rope before starting out, for the rock climbers would be relying on it with their very lives

Synonyms & Similar Words

• depending
• counting
• leaning
• trusting
• standing on
• looking to
• calculating
• calling on
• banking on
• entrusting
• confiding
• committing
• figuring on
• reckoning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• questioning
• suspecting
• distrusting
• mistrusting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of relying

Parents are naming guardians for their children in case they are detained or deported, while others have stopped working, shopping or even leaving home, relying instead on neighbors and churches. — Maria Santana, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Pallister’s process, not relying on hope as a strategy, is working. — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026

Instead of relying on additional chemical reagents to trigger the reactions needed to capture and release metals, the researchers can use an electrical signal. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026

FloatForm units can even travel together using a hybrid coordination framework, while relying on minimal human guidance. — New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2026

Government aid has yet to arrive in some areas, where many people are relying on volunteers and neighbors for help. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

Cramer said investors should learn from past market cycles, but warned that relying too heavily on historical comparisons can obscure what has fundamentally changed. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026

Neither has been able to afford TV advertising, instead relying on other kinds of get-out-the-vote efforts. — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026

Many of the first big commercial systems, like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, and HotBot, used crawlers and indexes to automatically map a growing web rather than relying on editors to hand-classify every site. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026