Any adjectives changing their prepositions like in "independent" and "dependent"?

Anonymous I can't come up with adjectives that will change their preposition if written using prefixes, like in "dependent ON" and "independent FROM". Why is this particular adjective so special, if there aren't any similar ones?

Did you really mean to say that (underlined)? Things are called "special" when there aren't any other things that are simila

This is an interesting question. I think it's all in the meaning. "On" suggests a connection to something, whereas "from" denotes a distance or separation, so it wouldn't be logical to say "dependent from" or "independent on". I'm not sure if there are other adjectives which work in a similar way, but I'd certainly be interested to know

I have said independent of all my life.

CB

Cool BreezeI have said independent of all my life.CB

Still, 'independent from' is also used. Here are more than 600 examples.

http://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=%22independent+from%22&l=0&sugg=off

CJ

It's worth opening another question whether to use "of" or "from". I found this lil piece of information regarding the differences between these two (both correct) variants:

I think "Independent from" means "separation", when there is no causative link between the co-dependents. "Independent of means "regardless". As in "This event will take place independent of the weather".

CalifJimthe fact that "flivver" is special because it's the only word with a double-V.

Well I had to chivvy up my friend to come up with this, but, although he's only a navvy, he's pretty savvy when it comes to language. I gave him a bottle of gin, which he divvied up with his wife and, after a couple of doubles, they thought of the words 'skivvy' and 'revved'

fivejedjonWell I had to

Of course I only said the 'flivver' thing for effect, thinking it was about as true as the OP's claim. (You might say I'm just being Brian Jennings for the day.)

CJ