| Main Entry: | accountability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
Synonyms: |
answerability, blameworthiness, liability |
| Main Entry: | blame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
Synonyms: |
accountability, answerability, burden, culpability, fault, guilt, incrimination, liability, onus, rap |
| Main Entry: | burden |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental weight; stress |
Synonyms: |
Herculean task, accountability, affliction, albatross, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, care, charge, clog, concern, deadweight, difficulty, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, millstone, misfortune, mishap, obstruction, onus, punishment, responsibility, sorrow, strain, task, tax, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, weary load, work, worry |
Antonyms: |
aid, help, relief |
| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral obligation |
Synonyms: |
accountability, accountableness, allegiance, amenability, answerability, burden, call of duty, charge, conscience, deference, devoir, faithfulness, good faith, honesty, integrity, liability, loyalty, obedience, pledge, respect, reverence |
Antonyms: |
faithlessness, inconstancy, treachery |
| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame, sin; mistake |
Synonyms: |
accountability, answerability, blunder, crime, culpability, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, evil doing, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, loss of innocence, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, peccancy, responsibility, slip, slip-up, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection |
| Main Entry: | liability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | answerability, responsibility |
Synonyms: |
accountability, accountableness, amenability, amenableness, arrearage, blame, burden, compulsion, culpability, debt, duty, indebtedness, obligation, onus, owing, subjection, susceptibility |
Antonyms: |
irresponsibility, unaccountability |
| Main Entry: | millstone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
Synonyms: |
accountability, affliction, albatross, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, charge, concern, cross, deadweight, difficulty, encumbrance, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, mental weight, misfortune, onus, punishment, responsibility, strain, stress, task, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, worry |
| Main Entry: | obligation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
Synonyms: |
IOU, accountability, accountableness, agreement, bond, burden, business, call, cause, charge, chit, commitment, committal, compulsion, conscience, constraint, contract, debit, debt, devoir, due bill, dues, duty, engagement, liability, must, necessity, need, occasion, onus, ought, part, place, promise, requirement, restraint, right, trust, understanding |
| Main Entry: | culpability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame |
Synonyms: |
accountability, blameworthiness, culpableness, fault, guilt, responsibility |
| Main Entry: | openness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exposure |
Synonyms: |
accountability, accountableness, amenability, amenableness, arrearage, blame, burden, compulsion, culpability, debt, duty, indebtedness, liability, obligation, onus, owing, subjection, susceptibility, susceptibleness, vulnerability, vulnerableness |