Another word for responsible
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Adjective
Legally obligated
- Legally obligated or responsible:
- Subject to undergoing or suffering something, especially something unpleasant. Used with to :
- Likely. Often used with reference to an unfavorable outcome:
- Subject to being called to answer; accountable:
- Capable of being answered or refuted:
- Suitable; appropriate.
- Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority:
- Ready to consent; agreeable:
- Responsible to higher authority; accountable:
- Expected or required to account for one's actions; answerable.
- Capable of being explained:
See also:Capable of being depended upon
- Meriting trust; trustworthy.
- A prison inmate granted certain privileges and benefits or accorded certain duties by virtue of having been recognized as trustworthy.
- A trusted person.
- Warranting trust; reliable.
- Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
- Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
- The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
- Of definite shape and volume; not liquid or gaseous:
- Of or relating to three-dimensional geometric figures or bodies.
- Firm or compact in substance:
- Capable of being relied on; dependable:
- Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials.
- Trustworthy.
See also:
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Another word for responsible
Modifier
Charged with responsibility
- Employed, occupied, or busy.
- Committed, as to a cause.
- Pledged to marry; betrothed:
- simple past tense and past participle of pledge
- (not comparable) Arranged by contract; established by agreement.
- Made smaller by contraction.
- Incurred; acquired.
- simple past tense and past participle of compel
- Under an obligation to do something for someone.
- Indebted because of a favor done.
- Simple past tense and past participle of oblige.
- Simple past tense and past participle of obligate.
- (North America, Scotland) committed
- (North America, Scotland) having an obligation; obliged
- Responsible for a reprehensible act; culpable.
- Found to have violated a criminal law by a jury or judge.
- Deserving blame, as for an error:
- guilty, responsible, deserving blame
- Alternative spelling of at fault.
- Deserving of blame or censure; blameworthy:
- Suitable to be charged, as to an account:
- Liable to be accused or indicted.
- deserving, or liable to, censure; blameworthy
- Covered or guaranteed by a surety bond or a fidelity bond:
- Of or relating to the storage of goods under a customs bond:
- Raised by issuing bonds:
- simple past tense and past participle of fetter
- Bound by chains or shackles
- (by extension) Restricted
- compelled; forced; obliged
- forced and unnatural
- To leap forward or upward; spring.
- To progress by forward leaps or springs.
- To bounce; rebound.
- Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of another or others:
- Prone; disposed:
- Likely to incur or receive; exposed:
- Willing to accept a suggestion or submit to authority:
- Ready to consent; agreeable:
- Responsible to higher authority; accountable:
- Legally obligated or responsible:
- Subject to undergoing or suffering something, especially something unpleasant. Used with to :
- Likely. Often used with reference to an unfavorable outcome:
- Subject to being called to answer; accountable:
- Capable of being answered or refuted:
- Suitable; appropriate.
- Expected or required to account for one's actions; answerable.
- Capable of being explained:
See also:Antonyms:Capable of assuming responsibility
- Having reached full natural growth or development:
- Having reached a desired or final condition; ripe:
- Having or showing characteristics, such as patience and prudence, considered typical of well-balanced adulthood:
- Having or exercising the ability to reason.
- Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
- Of sound mind; sane:
- Resistant to change of position or condition; not easily moved or disturbed:
- Not subject to sudden or extreme change or fluctuation:
- Maintaining equilibrium; self-restoring:
- Firm in position or place; fixed.
- Direct and unfaltering; sure.
- Free or almost free from change, variation, or fluctuation; uniform:
- Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving.
- Fixed or unchanging:
- Fixed or unmovable:
- Resistant to externally applied pressure.
- Marked by or indicating the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue:
- Securely fixed in place:
- Marked by or displaying integrity; upright:
- Not deceptive or fraudulent; genuine:
- Equitable; fair:
- Being in a vertical position or direction:
- Erect in posture or carriage:
- Adhering strictly to moral principles; righteous.
- Having an intended or expected effect.
- Producing a strong impression or response; striking:
- Operative; in effect:
- Having the appropriate qualifications for an office, position, or task.
- Limited, restricted, or modified:
- Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable:
- Adequate for the purpose:
- Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.
- Having sufficient power or resources to accomplish something:
- Susceptible to action or treatment:
- Especially capable or proficient:
- Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
- Thoroughly tested and proved to be good or trustworthy.
- Made to undergo trials or distress. Often used in combination:
- Guided by or in accordance with the dictates of conscience; principled:
- Thorough and assiduous:
- Trustworthy.
- Careful to fulfill obligations.
- Expressing or filled with a sense of obligation.
- Adhering firmly and devotedly, as to a person, cause, or idea; loyal.
- Engaging in sex only with one's spouse or only with one's partner in a sexual relationship.
- Responsible; conscientious:
- Steadfast in allegiance to one's homeland, government, or sovereign.
- Faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty.
- Of, relating to, or marked by loyalty:
- Acting or producing effectively with a minimum of waste, expense, or unnecessary effort:
- Acting directly to produce an effect:
- Causing less waste or requiring less effort than comparable devices or methods. Used in combination:
- Having capacity or ability; efficient and able:
- Having the ability required for a specific task or accomplishment; qualified:
- Having the inclination or disposition:
- Capable of being relied on; dependable:
- Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials.
- Meriting trust; trustworthy.
- A prison inmate granted certain privileges and benefits or accorded certain duties by virtue of having been recognized as trustworthy.
- A trusted person.
- Warranting trust; reliable.
Antonyms:
Synonym Study
- Accountable implies liability for which one may be called to account you will be held accountable for anything you may say
- Answerable implies a legal or moral obligation for which one must answer to someone sitting in judgment not answerable for the crimes of one's parents
- Responsible applies to one who has been delegated some duty or responsibility by one in authority and who is subject to penalty in case of default who is responsible for filing the reports?
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