BLAME Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

blame 1 of 2

verb

ˈblām

as in to criticize

to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of more concerned with pleasing audiences, the playwright has always claimed to be indifferent to whether critics praise his comedies or blame them without mercy

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blame

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noun

as in guilt

responsibility for wrongdoing or failure willingly accepted the blame for not seeing that the kitchen was properly cleaned

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as in responsibility

the state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right blame for the school's poor performance in standardized tests was attributed to several factors

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Recent Examples of blame

Verb

In Opposition, or SPLM/A-IO, condemned the attack on Monday and blamed government forces. —

ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026 Not one of the players after the Indiana game blamed themselves. —

Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026

Noun

The bodyguard who allegedly confronted soccer star Jorginho’s stepdaughter during an encounter with Chappell Roan in São Paulo, Brazil over the weekend has issued a mea culpa for the incident and taken full blame. —

Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2026 Feeding sainfoin to cattle, or mixing it with alfalfa, can improve health while reducing methane emissions that get part of the blame for the climate warming that is shrinking the snowpack that supplies the river. —

Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blame

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Two advisers to Qatar told me that Global Risk had also conducted background checks and written reports on people linked to campaigns criticizing Qatar; corporate-intelligence firms often provide such open-source research.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
However, in a pair of letters to the editor published in the Journal of Pediatrics, doctors criticized the article as hyped.

— David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026