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Beholden vs Unbeholden - What's the difference?

beholden | unbeholden |

As adjectives the difference between beholden and unbeholden

is that beholden is obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged while unbeholden is not beholden.

beholden

English

Alternative forms

*beholding

Adjective

(-)
  • Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; bound by moral obligation; indebted; obliged.
    • From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}} English adjectives ending in -en

    unbeholden

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not beholden.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 24, author=Eric Asimov, title=Quiet Cover for a Vital Brew, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Ever creative and unbeholden to tradition, American craft brewers have made the brown-ale style their own. }}