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

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Wiktionary2.0 / 1 vote

  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

Princeton's WordNet4.3 / 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. responsibleadjective

    Synonyms:
    answerable, liable, accountable, amenable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. responsibleadjective

    Synonyms:
    accountable, answerable, amenable

    Antonyms:
    irresponsible, unaccountable, independent

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How to use responsible in a sentence?

  1. Bassem Youssef:

    You can do funny to be a distraction and you can do funny to effect people and this is the difference,  What I miss in the show is the political satire as an effective weapon against the brainwashing and the empty propaganda. And I think it's very important… to enable the media and force the authority to be more responsible for the people.

  2. Keith Ellison:

    My office I will support law enforcement prosecutors every way we can in solving this crime holding accountable those responsible, school shootings, mass shootings gun violence happen far too often — and we must never become numb or desensitized. We must hold our hearts open to all the outrage and hold our minds open to all the solutions for ending it. We must not accept any more death and lives torn apart.

  3. Pete Wehner:

    I think Joe Biden’s got a pretty easy hand in terms of what you try and do with a State of the Union, one is you portray your case and your agenda as reasonable and responsible. And then what you try and do is put your opponents in a box, which is to portray them as extreme, as reckless, as irresponsible and radical if they oppose you. The advantage Joe Biden has is the party opposing Joe Biden is in many respects, reckless, irresponsible and extreme.

  4. Richard Harris:

    Doctor Richard Harris did his utmost on the medical mission he was responsible for, but if something went wrong he needed protection, we provided this only to Dr. Richard Harris and two medical assistants. Only to the Australian medical team.

  5. Shahindokht Molaverdi:

    Their children are potential drug traffickers as they would want to seek revenge and provide money for their families. There is no support for these people. we believe that if we do not support these people, they will be prone to crime, that’s why the society is responsible for the families of those executed.


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