Indebted Definition

ĭn-dĕtĭd
adjective
In debt or under legal obligation to repay something received.
Webster's New World
Owing gratitude, as for a favor received.
Webster's New World
Morally or socially obligated to another; beholden.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
verb

Simple past tense and past participle of indebt.

Wiktionary

Origin of Indebted

  • Middle English endetted from Old French endette past participle of endetter to oblige en- causative pref. en–1 dette debt debt

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Indebted Sentence Examples

  • However much Walton was indebted to his helpers.

  • To all of these I am most deeply indebted.

  • For maps of the Balkan Peninsula we are still largely indebted to the rapid surveys carried on by Austrian and Russian officers.

  • The three histories together became known in the West from the 6th century through the selection which Cassiodorus caused to be made from them, and it is to this selection (if we leave Rufinus and Jerome out of account) that the middle ages were mainly indebted for all they knew of the Arian controversies, and of the period generally between the Councils of Nice and Ephesus.

  • I am much indebted to you, sir, for a scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity.

More Sentences

Related Articles

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to indebted using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

IININD

Words Ending With

DEDTED

Unscrambles

indebted

Words Starting With I and Ending With D

Starts With I & Ends With DStarts With IN & Ends With DStarts With I & Ends With ED

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With I8 Letter Words Ending With D