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

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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. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

2. Philip Breedlove:

   This is not responsible language from a nuclear nation, rEACT RESPONSIBLY.

3. Mazeed Saqf Al-Hait from Nablus:

   This is a crime in all aspects, the PA is the main suspect in this crime. Israel is a suspect as a partner in this crime because [ the PA arrest operation ] requires security coordination. Also, the Mazeed Saqf Al-Hait from Nablus and the EU are partners in the crime through their financial support to the security forces. It is the system that is criminal and is responsible for the killing and should be held accountable.

4. Aaron Herzig:

   The defendants strongly believe that neither Cincinnati Public Schools, its employees, nor the school nurse were responsible for the tragic death of Gabriel Taye, cincinnati Public Schools embraces the goal of eliminating bullying within schools, as well as continuing to refine and improve reporting, management, and training processes related to incidents of bullying.

5. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández:

   We have our own responsibility. We accept that and we're doing our work. We are pushing this forward with all that we have. Other countries are responsible for this war that we're living.