Word.ws English Dictionary

unbeholden

unbeholden adjective: not beholden; not obliged or bound by duty or expectations.

Adjective

unbeholden (not comparable)

  1. Not beholden; not obliged or bound by duty or expectations.
    • Ever creative and unbeholden to tradition, American craft brewers have made the brown-ale style their own.2007 January 24, Eric Asimov, “Quiet Cover for a Vital Brew”, in New York Times
  2. (obsolete) Unseen.

Origin of unbeholden

From Middle English unbehealden, equivalent to un- + beholden.

Words formed from unbeholden

Questions about unbeholden

What does unbeholden mean?
Unbeholden means not beholden; not obliged or bound by duty or expectations.
What part of speech is unbeholden?
Unbeholden is an adjective.

Words near unbeholden in the dictionary

  1. unbegun
  2. unbehaving
  3. unbeheaded
  4. unbeheld
  5. unbeholdable
  6. unbeholden
  7. unbeholdenness
  8. unbeholding
  9. unbehoving
  10. unbeing
  11. unbeings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unbeholden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unbeholden.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unbeholden. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.