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Synonyms & Antonyms of responsibility
1
the state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right
- responsibility for the accident lies with the driver who was speeding
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2
something one must do because of prior agreement
- I had the responsibility of closing up the shop at night
Synonyms for responsibility
- burden,
- charge,
- commitment,
- devoir,
- do
- [archaic],
- duty,
- imperative,
- incumbency,
- need,
- obligation,
- office
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3
worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence
- the newspaper publisher should hire kids of greater responsibility to deliver its papers
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Antonyms for responsibility
- dodginess
- [chiefly British],
- unreliability
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The first known use of responsibility was in 1771
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