Beholden Synonyms and Antonyms

bĭ-hōldən
Owing something, such as gratitude or appreciation, to another
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. indebted
  2. obliged
  3. obligated
  4. bound
  5. accountable
  6. grateful
  7. under obligation
  8. bounden
  9. owing
Antonyms:
  1. ungrateful

Beholden Sentence Examples

  • It is now beholden on all of us to reap the benefits of the new order.

  • Government institutions are becoming ever more beholden to these corporations than to their citizens.

  • Before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.

  • Abu ' Obeida had an ungracious task, seeing that to the degraded warrior he was beholden for his victories in Syria.

  • Al-Moghira felt beholden to Ziyad for his evidence in this matter, as we shall in the sequel see.

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