Responsible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust.
  • adj. Involving personal accountability or ability to act without guidance or superior authority: a responsible position within the firm.
  • adj. Being a source or cause.
  • adj. Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior.
  • adj. Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable.
  • adj. Based on or characterized by good judgment or sound thinking: responsible journalism.
  • adj. Having the means to pay debts or fulfill obligations.
  • adj. Required to render account; answerable: The cabinet is responsible to the parliament.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
  • adj. Capable of responding to any reasonable claim; able to answer reasonably for one's conduct and obligations; capable of rational conduct.
  • adj. Involving responsibility; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
  • adj. Being a primary cause or agent of some event or action; capable of being credited for something, or of being held liable for something.
  • adj. Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable.
  • adj. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise.
  • adj. Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Correspondent; answering; responsive.
  • Answerable, as for an act performed or for its consequences, or for a trust reposed or a debt; accountable; specifically, in ethics, in general, having such a mental or moral character as to be capable of knowing and observing the distinction of right from wrong in conduct, and therefore morally accountable for one's acts; in particular (with reference to a certain act), acting or having acted as a free agent, and with knowledge of the ethical character of the act or of its consequences.
  • Able to answer or respond to any reasonable claim or to what is expected; able to discharge an obligation, or having estate adequate to the payment of a debt.
  • Involving responsibility.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. being the agent or cause
  • adj. worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable
  • adj. having an acceptable credit rating
    • Equivalent
    causative    liable    trustworthy    answerable    amenable    accountable    trusty   
    Antonym
    irresponsible   
    Cross Reference
    responsible utility    responsible business   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    answerable    amenable    accountable    trustworthy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    irresponsible   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    necessary    competent    useful    ready    independent    capable    anxious    honorable   
     
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