unbeholden

1. 1.

   free of moral obligation

   Similarunobligated

Questions about unbeholden

What does unbeholden mean?

unbeholden means "free of moral obligation".

How many syllables are in unbeholden?

unbeholden has 4 syllables and divides as un-be-hol-den under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is unbeholden a common word?

unbeholden is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.