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| Main Entry: |
indebted
 [in-det-id] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under an obligation |
| Synonyms: | accountable, answerable for, appreciative, beholden, bound, bounden, chargeable, duty-bound, grateful, honor-bound, hooked, in debt, in hock, liable, obligated, obliged, owed, owing, responsible, thankful |
| Antonyms: | paid, settled |
| Main Entry: | broke |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without money |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beggared, bust, cleaned out, destitute, dirt poor, flat broke, impoverished, in Chapter 11, in debt, indebted, indigent, insolvent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, ruined, stone broke, strapped, tapped out |
| Antonyms: | affluent, rich, solvent, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | deferred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | put off till a later time |
| Synonyms: | adjourned, assessed, charged, delayed, funded, held up, in waiting, indebted, negotiated, on hold, on the shelf, pigeonholed, postponed, prolonged, protracted, remanded, renegotiated, retarded, scrubbed, stalled, staved off, temporized |
| Antonyms: | advanced, forwarded, furthered, hastened, hurried |
Example Sentences
- We are once more indebted to the management of the line for valued additions to our foreign files.
- The national currency has lost almost half its value in the past two years, and the country is now heavily indebted.
- The indebted will cut their spending to free up the extra cash to service their loans.
| Main Entry: | grateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appreciative |
| Synonyms: | beholden, gratified, indebted, obliged, pleased, thankful |
| Notes: | grateful means feeling or showing gratitude or feeling thankful; gratified means having received what was desired; gratuitous means costing nothing or free - unnecessary or unwarranted - without cause |
| Antonyms: | heedless, thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful |
| Main Entry: | insolvent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | financially ruined |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, broke*, broken, busted, failed, foreclosed, in Chapter 11, in Chapter 13, in receivership, in the red, indebted, lost, on the rocks, out of money, strapped, taken to the cleaners, unbalanced, undone, wiped out |
| Antonyms: | moneyed, rich, solvent, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obligate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | require |
| Synonyms: | astrict, bind, constrain, force, indebt, make indebted, oblige, restrain, restrict |
| Antonyms: | let off |
| Main Entry: | obligated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound |
| Synonyms: | bounden, called by duty, committed, compelled, contracted, duty-bound, enslaved, forced, indebted, indentured, obliged, pledged, required, tied, under obligation, urged |
| Main Entry: | obliged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound |
| Synonyms: | bounden, called by duty, committed, compelled, contracted, duty-bound, enslaved, forced, indebted, indentured, obligated, pledged, required, tied, under obligation, urged |
| Main Entry: | thankful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appreciative |
| Synonyms: | beholden, content, contented, grateful, gratified, indebted, much obliged, obliged, overwhelmed, pleased, relieved, satisfied |
| Antonyms: | critical, thankless, unappreciative, ungrateful, unthankful |
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