culpable

Meaning of culpable

adjective
  1. deserving blame.
    mercy killings are less culpable than ‘ordinary’ murders

Middle English (in the sense ‘deserving punishment’): from Old French coupable, culpable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare ‘to blame’, from culpa ‘fault, blame’.

Information about culpable

Hyphenation of culpable

cul-pa-ble

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • culpable is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

culpable synonyms

Meaning blameworthy:

blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable

Meaning culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing:

guilty

Meaning having an obligation to do something, or having control over or care for someone, as part of one's job or role:

responsible

Meaning required to explain or justify one's actions to; responsible or having to report to:

answerable

Meaning responsible by law; legally answerable:

liable

Meaning required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible:

accountable

culpable antonyms

Meaning innocent of wrongdoing:

blameless

Meaning not guilty of a crime or offence:

innocent

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