Entry Word: blame

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 responsibility for wrongdoing or failure <willingly accepted the blame for not seeing that the kitchen was properly cleaned>

Synonyms culpability, fault, guilt, rap

Related Words regret, remorse, self-reproach, shame; accountability, liability; complicity; blameworthiness, reprehensibleness, sinfulness; censure, condemnation, denunciation

Near Antonyms acclaim, plaudits, praise; achievement, success

Antonyms blamelessness, faultlessness, guiltlessness, innocence

2 the state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right <the blame is yours, so you have to fix this> — see responsibility 1