What does responsible mean?

Definitions for responsible
rɪˈspɒn sə bəlre·spon·si·ble

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

  2. responsible, responsible for(p)adjective

    being the agent or cause

    "determined who was the responsible party"; "termites were responsible for the damage"

  3. creditworthy, responsibleadjective

    having an acceptable credit rating

    "a responsible borrower"

Wiktionary

  1. responsibleadjective

    Answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.

    Parents are responsible for their child's behaviour.

  2. responsibleadjective

    Capable of responding to any reasonable claim; able to answer reasonably for one's conduct and obligations; capable of rational conduct.

  3. responsibleadjective

    Involving responsibility; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.

    She has a responsible position in the firm.

  4. responsibleadjective

    Being a primary cause or agent of some event or action; capable of being credited for something, or of being held liable for something.

    Who is responsible for this mess?

  5. responsibleadjective

    Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.

    He looks like a responsible guy.

  6. Etymology: From responsable, from responsus, from respondere

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Responsibleadjective

    Etymology: from responsus, Lat.

    He as much satisfies the itch of telling news; he as much persuades his hearers; and all this while he has his retreat secure, and stands not responsible for the truth of his relations. Government of the Tongue.

    The necessity of a proportion of money to trade depends on money as a pledge, which writing cannot supply the place of; since the bill, I receive from one man, will not be accepted as security by another, he not knowing that the bill is legal, or that the man bound is honest or responsible. John Locke.

ChatGPT

  1. responsible

    Responsible refers to having an obligation or duty to deal with something or having control over someone or something. It also refers to being accountable for one's actions or decisions, and capable of making moral or rational decisions on one's own. Furthermore, it can also imply reliability or dependability, particularly in fulfilling tasks or roles.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Responsibleadjective

    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

  2. Responsibleadjective

    able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety

  3. Responsibleadjective

    involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned; as, a responsible office

Editors Contribution

  1. responsible

    To be accountable or trusted to action or make a choice or decision.

    Our children are responsible at a very young age as we teach and educate them to be responsible people.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 18, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'responsible' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1062

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'responsible' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1492

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'responsible' in Adjectives Frequency: #133

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of responsible in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of responsible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of responsible in a Sentence

  1. Kate Andersen:

    Bunny Mellon said Jacqueline Kennedy was really the person responsible for The Rose Garden and that Jacqueline Kennedy never stopped being interested in The Rose Garden. The Rose Garden was a calming influence outside the Oval Office for Jacqueline Kennedy and every president since, the Rose Garden has become a symbol of the American presidency much like the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. Rose Garden addresses are often Rose Garden addresses.

  2. Gurbir Grewal:

    This action involves breaches of trust by gatekeepers within the gatekeeper entrusted to audit many of our nation's public companies, it's simply outrageous that the very professionals responsible for catching cheating by clients cheated on ethics exams, of all things.

  3. Nishank Motwani:

    The report will allow the Taliban to blame foreign forces for the suffering of Afghan civilians even though Taliban fighters are responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 civilians in the past decade.

  4. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

    This does not mean that either of these sites will be chosen; we will also be assessing other locations in coming weeks, ultimately, the facility surveys will provide me, the rest of the President's national security team and Congress with some of the information needed to chart a responsible way forward and a plan so that we can close the detention facility at Guantanamo and this chapter in our history once and for all.

  5. Paul Howell sister:

    Paul Howell is the same person today as Paul Howell was 22 years ago. Paul Howell’s still getting into trouble. Paul Howell’s still in a gang. Paul Howell’s still lying. And Paul Howell still feels no shame, guilt or remorse for Paul Howell action, we need Julius Jones to be held responsible.

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