Responsible
[rɪ'spɒnsɪb(ə)l] or [rɪ'spɑnsəbl]
Definition
(adj.) being the agent or cause; 'determined who was the responsible party'; 'termites were responsible for the damage' .
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office.
(a.) Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety.
(a.) Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned; as, a responsible office.
Inputed by Davis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Answerable, liable, accountable, amenable.
Inputed by Liza
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACCOUNTABLE]
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Examples
- But it is a responsible trust,' added Mr Milvey, 'and difficult to discharge. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Gerald himself, who was responsible for all this industry, was he a good director? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whilst his father lived Gerald was not responsible for the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am at present responsible for his life; it shall not be forfeited for half an hour's idle gossip. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Am I responsible for putting back the pins? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I will tell the first responsible one I see. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had three wounded Russians in the Palace Hotel for whom he was responsible. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I am not so unreasonable, sir, as to think you at all responsible for my mistakes and wrong conclusions; but I always supposed it was Miss Havisham. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Only you must be responsible for damages. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You can't make HIM responsible. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The least that you owe her is to make it clear to the whole world that she was in no way, directly or indirectly, responsible for his tragic end. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am not responsible for her likes and dislikes, retorted Justinian coldly, although he heard this remark with much inward satisfaction. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I never was responsible in my life--I can't be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If that's responsibility, I am responsible. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- An accident, for which he was not responsible, delayed him on his errand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Remember you are to that extent responsible for my wooing with Eunice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Perhaps he is not wholly responsible personally for this state of affairs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But now a man must be responsible to himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Now that I have begun, I will have some definite reason, some responsible statement, something in the nature of a real answer, from those people. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A medical man should be responsible for the quality of the drugs consumed by his patients. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Frenchman produced his credentials, and declared me to be responsible for the ruin of a poor man, who had trusted in my honour. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I really feel a little responsible. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But Gutenberg could not be persuaded, he preferred to work after his own fashion, and to be responsible only to himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I am responsible to no Lord Chancellor in her case. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No doubt a sense of this dilemma is partly responsible for Wilson's earnest plea that the question of liquor be left out of the campaign. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is useless, she said, to hold such a child as that responsible for what he says. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Somebody must be responsible for their failures. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Convection is responsible for winds and ocean currents, for land and sea breezes, and other daily phenomena. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The President was required in the more responsible place of seeing that injustice was not done to others. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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