responsibility

The word “responsibility” has 6 syllables: re-spon-si-bil-i-ty

It's pronounced as /rɪˌspɒn.səˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/


What is synonym and antonym for responsibility?

In the thesaurus, “responsibility” has 92 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for responsibility along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for responsibility

  • ability
  • accountability
  • albatross
  • amenability
  • answerability
  • appointment
  • arrangement
  • authority
  • blame
  • boundness
  • burden
  • capableness
  • capacity
  • care
  • charge
  • coercion
  • commitment
  • compact
  • competency
  • compulsion
  • conscientiousness
  • constraint
  • contract
  • covenant
  • credibility
  • creditability
  • creditableness
  • culpability
  • debt
  • dependability
  • dependableness
  • devoir
  • do
  • duress
  • duty
  • efficiency
  • encumbrance
  • engagement
  • faithfulness
  • fault
  • firmness
  • force
  • guilt
  • holding the bag
  • honesty
  • imperative
  • importance
  • incubus
  • incumbency
  • inerrancy
  • infallibility
  • levelheadedness
  • liability
  • loyalty
  • must
  • need
  • oath
  • obligation
  • obligatoriness
  • office
  • onus
  • pact
  • payment
  • pledge
  • power
  • prearrangement
  • promise
  • rap
  • rationality
  • reliability
  • reliableness
  • requirement
  • reservation
  • restraint
  • sensibleness
  • setup
  • soberness
  • solidity
  • solidness
  • stability
  • steadfastness
  • subjection
  • sureness
  • tribute
  • troth
  • trust
  • trustability
  • trustiness
  • trustworthiness
  • uprightness
  • vow
  • word

Antonyms for responsibility

  • alternative
  • benefit
  • blessing
  • choice
  • discharge
  • distrust
  • dodginess
  • doubtfulness
  • dubiousness
  • ease
  • exemption
  • freedom
  • grace
  • immaturity
  • immunity
  • impotence
  • inability
  • incompetence
  • irresponsibility
  • loophole
  • option
  • pick
  • postponement
  • preference
  • questionableness
  • release
  • relief
  • selection
  • shakiness
  • stay
  • uncertainness
  • unreliability
  • waiver
  • weakness

Meanings of responsibility

  • noun
    1. The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
    2. The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
    3. A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
    4. The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
    5. The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.

Example Sentences

  • It is your responsibility to ensure the safety of the team.
  • Taking care of the environment is a shared responsibility for everyone.
  • He accepted the responsibility of leading the project with confidence.
  • Parents have the responsibility to guide their children toward making good decisions.
  • The manager emphasized the importance of personal responsibility in achieving success.

On this page you'll find 126 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to responsibility, such as: ability, accountability, albatross, alternative, amenability, answerability, appointment.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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labor

  • abortion
  • accouchement
  • activity
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  • apprentice
  • article
  • attack
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  • bear
  • beast
  • birth
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  • blue-collar worker
  • bother
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  • by-product
  • caesarean section
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  • childbearing
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  • chore
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  • conclusion
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  • corollary
  • cultivate
  • daily grind
  • delivery
  • derivative
  • development
  • dig in
  • diligence
  • dint
  • donkeywork
  • drive
  • drudge
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  • duty
  • effect
  • effort
  • eke out
  • elbow grease
  • employee
  • employment
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • entry
  • essay
  • exercise
  • exert
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  • exertion
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  • fag
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  • fling
  • force
  • fruit
  • giving birth
  • go
  • goods
  • grind
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  • grub
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  • hand
  • handcraft
  • handicraft
  • handiwork
  • hard hat
  • headache
  • heavy lifting
  • help
  • helper
  • hireling
  • hump
  • hustle
  • industry
  • issue
  • job
  • killer
  • knuckle down
  • laborer
  • learner
  • line
  • load
  • lucubration
  • lying-in
  • merchandise
  • might
  • miscarriage
  • moil
  • moonlight
  • muscle
  • natural childbirth
  • nuisance
  • object
  • obligation
  • offshoot
  • offspring
  • operation
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  • overexert
  • overwork
  • pains
  • parturition
  • pass
  • pitch in
  • plod
  • plow
  • plug
  • plug away
  • pour it on
  • power
  • pregnancy
  • prentice
  • produce
  • product
  • production
  • proletarian
  • puissance
  • pull
  • push
  • put out
  • rank and file
  • residual
  • responsibility
  • result
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  • routine
  • scrabble
  • scratch
  • sequel
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  • shot
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  • slave
  • slavery
  • slog
  • spadework
  • spin-off
  • stab
  • strain
  • stress
  • strive
  • struggle
  • sweat
  • sweat blood
  • tedium
  • tend
  • thing
  • throes
  • toil
  • toiler
  • travail
  • treadmill
  • trial
  • trouble
  • trudge
  • try
  • tug
  • upshot
  • wade
  • wares
  • weight
  • whack
  • while
  • work
  • work force
  • work oneself to the bone
  • worker
  • working people
  • yield

obligation

  • IOU
  • accountability
  • accountableness
  • agreement
  • appointment
  • arrangement
  • arrearage
  • arrears
  • bankruptcy
  • bond
  • burden
  • business
  • call
  • cause
  • charge
  • chit
  • coercion
  • commitment
  • committal
  • compact
  • compulsion
  • conscience
  • constraint
  • contract
  • covenant
  • debit
  • debt
  • default
  • delinquency
  • devoir
  • do
  • due bill
  • dues
  • duress
  • duty
  • embarrassment
  • engagement
  • force
  • imperative
  • incumbency
  • indebtedness
  • insolvency
  • liabilities
  • liability
  • must
  • necessity
  • need
  • oath
  • occasion
  • office
  • onus
  • ought
  • pact
  • part
  • payment
  • place
  • pledge
  • prearrangement
  • promise
  • requirement
  • reservation
  • responsibility
  • restraint
  • right
  • score
  • setup
  • tribute
  • troth
  • trust
  • understanding
  • vow
  • word

bafflement

  • abashment
  • ado
  • adverse fate
  • adversity
  • aggravation
  • agitation
  • annoyance
  • anxiety
  • bamboozlement
  • befuddlement
  • bemusement
  • bewilderedness
  • bewilderment
  • blow
  • bother
  • care
  • chagrin
  • charge
  • commotion
  • complication
  • confusedness
  • confusion
  • crisis
  • daze
  • defeat
  • depression
  • despondency
  • discombobulation
  • discomfiture
  • discomfort
  • disconcertment
  • discontent
  • discouragement
  • disenchantment
  • disgruntlement
  • disillusion
  • disillusionment
  • dismay
  • disorientation
  • disquiet
  • dissatisfaction
  • distraction
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • dither
  • embarrassment
  • emergency
  • exigency
  • failure
  • flurry
  • fluster
  • fog
  • frustration
  • fuss
  • grievance
  • hangup
  • harassment
  • head-scratching
  • imbroglio
  • inconvenience
  • irritation
  • jam
  • lack of success
  • letdown
  • maze
  • mess
  • millstone
  • misery
  • mortification
  • muddle
  • mystification
  • nonsuccess
  • obfuscation
  • oppression
  • perplexity
  • perturbation
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • predicament
  • pressure
  • puzzle
  • puzzlement
  • quandary
  • ramification
  • regret
  • responsibility
  • scrape
  • setback
  • stew
  • strain
  • strait
  • stress
  • strife
  • struggle
  • stupefaction
  • stupor
  • surprise
  • tangle
  • the knocks
  • to-do
  • trouble
  • turmoil
  • unfulfillment
  • upset
  • vicissitude
  • weight
  • whirl
  • worry

pain

  • ache
  • advertence
  • advertency
  • afflict
  • affliction
  • aggravation
  • aggrieve
  • agonize
  • agony
  • ail
  • alertness
  • anguish
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyer
  • anxiety
  • asperity
  • attempt
  • attention
  • backache
  • bellyache
  • bite
  • bitterness
  • bleed
  • bore
  • bother
  • burn
  • care
  • carefulness
  • catch
  • chafe
  • charley horse
  • chasten
  • closeness
  • colic
  • complaint
  • concentration
  • conscientiousness
  • constrain
  • convulse
  • convulsion
  • cramp
  • crick
  • cross
  • crucible
  • cut to the quick
  • damage
  • danger
  • despondency
  • detriment
  • difficulty
  • dint
  • discomfort
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • drag
  • drudgery
  • dutifulness
  • earache
  • effort
  • elbow grease
  • emergency
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • essay
  • exactness
  • exasperate
  • excruciate
  • excruciation
  • exertion
  • expenditure
  • fester
  • fever
  • fling
  • focus
  • force
  • gadfly
  • gall
  • gnawer
  • go
  • grief
  • grieve
  • grind
  • gripe
  • harass
  • harasser
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harrier
  • harrow
  • hassle
  • headache
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heckler
  • heed
  • heedfulness
  • hit where one lives
  • hurt
  • illness
  • inflame
  • inflammation
  • injure
  • injury
  • interrupter
  • interruptor
  • irk
  • irreproachability
  • irreproachableness
  • irritate
  • irritation
  • itch
  • jeopardy
  • joylessness
  • labor
  • laceration
  • malady
  • malaise
  • martyrdom
  • meticulosity
  • meticulousness
  • might
  • mindfulness
  • misery
  • molester
  • muscle
  • nag
  • nick
  • nudnick
  • nudnik
  • nuisance
  • observance
  • observation
  • pain in the neck
  • painstaking
  • pang
  • paroxysm
  • particularity
  • pass
  • persecutor
  • pest
  • pinch
  • plague
  • pound
  • power
  • precision
  • prick
  • puissance
  • punctiliousness
  • punish
  • rack
  • responsibility
  • rigor
  • rile
  • sadden
  • sadness
  • scrupulousness
  • shock
  • shoot
  • shot
  • sickness
  • slog
  • smart
  • smarting
  • sore
  • soreness
  • sorrow
  • spasm
  • stab
  • sting
  • stitch
  • stomachache
  • strain
  • stress
  • suffer
  • sufferance
  • suffering
  • sweat
  • swell
  • swelling
  • tease
  • teaser
  • tenderness
  • throb
  • throe
  • tingle
  • toil
  • toothache
  • torment
  • tormenter
  • tormentor
  • torture
  • torturer
  • travail
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • try
  • twinge
  • unhappiness
  • upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vigilance
  • watchfulness
  • whack
  • while
  • woe
  • work
  • worry
  • wound
  • wretchedness

pains

  • accomplishment
  • aches
  • achievement
  • act
  • action
  • activity
  • ado
  • advertence
  • advertency
  • afflicts
  • agonizes
  • agony
  • aim
  • alertness
  • anguish
  • anguishes
  • application
  • arm
  • aspiration
  • assiduity
  • assignment
  • attempt
  • attention
  • battle
  • birth
  • birth pangs
  • bites
  • bleeds
  • bother
  • brunt
  • brush
  • burden
  • burns
  • business
  • bustle
  • calling
  • care
  • carefulness
  • caution
  • chafes
  • charge
  • childbearing
  • childbirth
  • chore
  • circumspection
  • clash
  • closeness
  • clout
  • coercion
  • combat
  • commission
  • commitment
  • committal
  • compulsion
  • concentration
  • concern
  • conflict
  • conscientiousness
  • conscription
  • consideration
  • constrait
  • contest
  • contract
  • contractions
  • crack
  • cramps
  • creation
  • daily grind
  • deed
  • delivery
  • determination
  • devoir
  • difficulty
  • diligence
  • dint
  • direction
  • discipline
  • discretion
  • discrimination
  • distress
  • draft
  • drill
  • drudge
  • drudgery
  • dues
  • duress
  • dutifulness
  • dynamism
  • effort
  • elbow grease
  • employment
  • encounter
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • enforcement
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • enthusiasm
  • essay
  • exaction
  • exactitude
  • exactness
  • exercise
  • exertion
  • expenditure
  • extortion
  • faithfulness
  • fastidiousness
  • feat
  • festers
  • fling
  • flurry
  • focus
  • force
  • forethought
  • free-for-all
  • full head of steam
  • function
  • functioning
  • fury
  • fuss
  • gingerliness
  • giving birth
  • go
  • grind
  • grindstone
  • gruntwork
  • hard pull
  • hardship
  • harrows
  • hassle
  • heed
  • heedfulness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • hook
  • horsepower
  • hurts
  • impact
  • impetus
  • impulse
  • inconvenience
  • incorruptibility
  • industry
  • intention
  • intentness
  • interest
  • inventiveness
  • irreproachability
  • irreproachableness
  • itches
  • jam
  • job
  • judiciousness
  • jump
  • labor
  • load
  • long haul
  • long pull
  • management
  • meticulosity
  • meticulousness
  • might
  • millstone
  • mindfulness
  • minding the store
  • mission
  • moil
  • momentum
  • moonlight
  • muscle
  • must
  • nags
  • need
  • nicety
  • nine-to-five
  • obligation
  • observance
  • observation
  • occupation
  • office
  • old college try
  • onus
  • operation
  • ought
  • painstaking
  • pangs
  • part
  • particularity
  • parturition
  • pass
  • patience
  • performance
  • perseverance
  • persistence
  • pinches
  • potency
  • potential
  • pother
  • pounds
  • pow
  • power
  • precaution
  • precision
  • pressure
  • product
  • production
  • province
  • prudence
  • puissance
  • pull
  • punch
  • punctiliousness
  • purpose
  • push
  • racks
  • regard
  • resolution
  • responsibility
  • rigor
  • role
  • rough-and-tumble
  • roughhouse
  • row
  • salt mines
  • scramble
  • scrupulousness
  • service
  • servitude
  • set-to
  • shot
  • sinew
  • skirmish
  • slog
  • slogging
  • smarts
  • sock
  • solicitude
  • speed
  • spurt
  • stab
  • station
  • steadfastness
  • steam
  • stimulus
  • stings
  • stint
  • strain
  • strength
  • stress
  • stretch
  • strife
  • string
  • striving
  • strong arm
  • struggle
  • stuff
  • subjection
  • suffering
  • suffers
  • sweat
  • swells
  • taking care of business
  • task
  • tension
  • thought
  • throbs
  • throes
  • tingles
  • tirelessness
  • toil
  • torments
  • tortures
  • training
  • travail
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • trust
  • try
  • tug
  • tussle
  • twinges
  • undertaking
  • uprightness
  • use
  • utilization
  • velocity
  • venture
  • veracity
  • vigilance
  • vigor
  • violence
  • wariness
  • watchfulness
  • weight
  • whack
  • what it takes
  • while
  • woe
  • work
  • worry
  • wrangle
  • zeal

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