Synonyms for responsible
rɪˈspɒn sə bəlre·spon·si·ble

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1. responsibleadjective

   Antonyms:
   irresponsible

2. responsibleadjective

   Parents are responsible for their child's behaviour.

   Antonyms:
   irresponsible

3. responsibleadjective

   Antonyms:
   irresponsible

4. responsibleadjective

   She has a responsible position in the firm.

   Antonyms:
   irresponsible

5. responsibleadjective

   Who is responsible for this mess?

   Antonyms:
   irresponsible

6. responsibleadjective

   He looks like a responsible guy.

   Antonyms:
   irresponsible

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. responsible

   Synonyms:
   accountable, complaisant, compliant, conditional, constitutional, contingent, docile, ductile, gentle, humble, lenient, limited, lowly, meek, mild, submissive, yielding

   Antonyms:
   absolute, arbitrary, arrogant, authoritative, autocratic, coercive, commanding, compulsive, compulsory, controlling, despotic, dictatorial, dogmatic, domineering, exacting, haughty, imperative, imperious, irresponsible, lordly, overbearing, peremptory, positive, supreme, tyrannical, unconditional, unequivocal

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. responsibleadjective

   worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable

   "a responsible adult"; "responsible journalism"; "a responsible position"; "the captain is responsible for the ship's safety"; "the cabinet is responsible to the parliament"

   Synonyms:
   creditworthy, responsible for(p)

   Antonyms:
   feckless, unreliable, devil-may-care, harum-scarum, irresponsible, carefree, trigger-happy, idle, unaccountable, loose, noncausative, freewheeling, slaphappy, untrusty, do-nothing(a), untrustworthy, noncausal, happy-go-lucky

2. responsible, responsible for(p)adjective

   being the agent or cause

   "determined who was the responsible party"; "termites were responsible for the damage"

   Antonyms:
   unreliable, idle, do-nothing(a), devil-may-care, untrustworthy, untrusty, irresponsible, freewheeling, unaccountable, noncausative, harum-scarum, carefree, noncausal, slaphappy, happy-go-lucky, feckless, loose, trigger-happy

3. creditworthy, responsibleadjective

   having an acceptable credit rating

   "a responsible borrower"

   Synonyms:
   creditworthy, responsible for(p)

   Antonyms:
   untrusty, unaccountable, feckless, untrustworthy, carefree, freewheeling, slaphappy, do-nothing(a), happy-go-lucky, loose, idle, irresponsible, noncausative, devil-may-care, harum-scarum, trigger-happy, unreliable, noncausal

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1. responsibleadjective

   Synonyms:
   answerable, liable, accountable, amenable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. responsibleadjective

   Synonyms:
   accountable, answerable, amenable

   Antonyms:
   irresponsible, unaccountable, independent

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1. List of paraphrases for "responsible":

   accountable, responsibility, liable, chargé, competent, loaded, perpetrators, liability, officials, makers, authors, guilty, responsable, granting, tasked, lead, accountability, leaders, responsibly, responsables, charged, mandated, head, responsibilities, origin, entrusted, official, answerable, managers, relevant, load

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How to use responsible in a sentence?

1. Baher Azmy:

   We renew our demand for accountability for those individuals responsible for the CIA torture program.

2. Mykhailo Podolyak:

   Ru-propaganda lives in a fictional world : [ Ukrainian ] woman and her 12-year-old child were' assigned' responsible for blowing up the car of Darya Dugina. Surprisingly, they did not find the' Estonian visa' on the spot.

3. Detective Superintendent Des Bray:

   Those responsible for this crime are truly evil and remain amongst us in the community and must be held accountable for what they have done.

4. Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer:

   That was, I see in retrospect, a mistake for which I am solely responsible.

5. Mari Newman:

   If the grand jury in Elijah McClain’s case doesn’t indict the officers and medics responsible for killing him, it will be because the attorney general’s office did not want charges to be brought.