Antonyms for blame
bleɪmblame

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blame

   To condemn is to pass judicial sentence or render judgment or decision against. We may censure silently; we condemn ordinarily by open and formal utterance. Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail. A person is convicted when his guilt is made clearly manifest to others; in somewhat archaic use, a person is said to be convicted when guilt is brought clearly home to his own conscience (convict in this sense being allied with convince, which see under PERSUADE); in legal usage one is said to be convicted only by the verdict of a jury. In stating the penalty of an offense, the legal word sentence is now more common than condemn; as, he was sentenced to imprisonment; but it is good usage to say, he was condemned to imprisonment. To denounce is to make public or official declaration against, especially in a violent and threatening manner.

   From the pulpits in the northern States Burr was denounced as an assassin.

   Coffin Building the Nation ch. 10, p. 137. [Harper & Bros. '83.]

   To doom is to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ARRAIGN; REPROVE.

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, applaud, approve, exonerate, justify, pardon, pardon, praise

   Synonyms:
   censure, condemn, convict, denounce, doom, reprobate, reprove, sentence

   Preposition:
   The bandit was condemned to death for his crime.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. blame

   Antonyms:
   acquit, exculpate, exonerate, encourage, praise, approve

   Synonyms:
   censure, chide, rebuke, reproach, vituperate, dispraise, disapprove, condemn, reprehend, reprobate, reprove

Matched Categories

1. • Accusation
   • Charge
   • Criticize

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incrimination, inculpation, blamenoun

   an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed

   "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on the driver"

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, justify, absolve, free

   Synonyms:
   rap, inculpation, incrimination

2. blame, rapadjective

   a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

   "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, justify, absolve, free

   Synonyms:
   whack, knock, incrimination, hip-hop, strike, rap music, pat, belt, whang, rap, inculpation, tap

3. blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernalverb

   expletives used informally as intensifiers

   "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, justify, free, absolve

   Synonyms:
   blasted, unsaved, doomed, damned, diabolic, unredeemed, blest, deuced, hellish, satanic, blamed, damn, goddam, fiendish, goddamned, unholy, darned, beatified, demonic, diabolical, goddamn, cursed, infernal, blessed

4. blame, faultverb

   put or pin the blame on

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, justify, absolve, free

   Synonyms:
   pick, fault, find fault, charge

5. blame, find fault, pickverb

   harass with constant criticism

   "Don't always pick on your little brother"

   Antonyms:
   blessed, blest, free, justify, absolve

   Synonyms:
   charge, pick, peck, cull, clean, beak, fault, nibble, plunk, break up, pluck, find fault, foot, piece

6. blame, chargeverb

   attribute responsibility to

   "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"

   Antonyms:
   blest, blessed, free, justify, absolve

   Synonyms:
   saddle, institutionalize, buck, fault, shoot down, commove, turn on, shoot, appoint, pick, agitate, rouse, consign, accuse, point, institutionalise, file, bill, find fault, tear, level, burden, charge, load, bear down, commit, charge up, excite, lodge, send

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blamenoun

   Synonyms:
   censure, reproach, reprehension, condemnation, stricture, animadversion, reproof, culpability, reprehensibility, demerit, wrongdoing, fault

2. blameverb

   Synonyms:
   censure, reproach

How to use blame in a sentence?

1. Scott Gerlicher:

   There isn’t a huge appetite for aggressive police work out there, and the risk/reward, certainly, we’re there and we’re sworn to protect and serve, but you also have to protect yourself and your family, nobody in the job or working on the job can blame those officers for being less aggressive.

2. William James:

   Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

3. Betty Naomi Friedan:

   If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

4. Patrick Morgan:

   There is no one to blame but myself.

5. Plato:

   Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

How to pronounce blame?

How to say blame in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency