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| Main Entry: | responsibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accountability, blame |
| Synonyms: | albatross*, authority, burden, care, charge, constraint, contract, duty, encumbrance, engagement, fault, guilt, importance, incubus, liability, obligation, onus, pledge, power, rap, restraint, trust, amenability, answerability, boundness, culpability, holding the bag, incumbency, obligatoriness, subjection |
| Antonyms: | exemption, freedom, immunity, irresponsibility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | responsibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maturity, trustworthiness |
| Synonyms: | ability, capacity, conscientiousness, efficiency, faithfulness, firmness, honesty, loyalty, reliability, stability, uprightness, capableness, competency, dependability, dependableness, levelheadedness, rationality, sensibleness, soberness, steadfastness, trustiness |
| Antonyms: | distrust, immaturity, irresponsibility |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commitment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assurance; obligation |
| Synonyms: | charge, duty, engagement, guarantee, liability, must, need, pledge, promise, responsibility, undertaking, vow, word, committal, devoir, ought |
| Antonyms: | denial, refusal, broken promise |
| Main Entry: | debt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money owed to others |
| Synonyms: | IOU, albatross*, arrears, bad news*, baggage*, bill, bite*, capital, check, chit*, claim, commitment, credit, cuff*, damage*, debenture, debit, deficit, due, dues, duty, encumbrance, in the red, indebtedness, invoice, liability, manifest, mortgage, note, obligation, price tag*, promissory note, receipt, reckoning, responsibility, score, tab, tally, voucher, arrearage, below the line, dead horse, in hock, in the hole, outstandings, red ink |
| Antonyms: | asset, cash, credit, excess, profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution, judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, attention, calculation, care, concern, consideration, deliberation, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, foresight, forethought, gumption, heed, maturity, observation, perspicacity, precaution, presence of mind, providence, prudence, responsibility, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, wisdom, canniness, carefulness, chariness, circumspection, considerateness, good sense, heedfulness, judiciousness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | encumbrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | albatross, ball and chain, cross, debt, duty, guilt, handicap, hindrance, impediment, load, millstone, monkey on one's back, obstruction, responsibility, saddle, thorn in one's side, weight, worry |
| Main Entry: | expense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cost, payment |
| Synonyms: | amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line*, budget, charge, consumption, debit, debt, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, obligation, outdo*, outlay, output, overhead, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth, decrement, out of pocket, payroll, spending |
| Notes: | expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame; bad conscience over responsibility |
| Synonyms: | contrition, crime, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, shame, sin, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong, answerability, blameworthiness, criminality, culpability, malefaction, peccability, self-condemnation, self-reproach, sinfulness |
| Antonyms: | innocence |
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
| Synonyms: | candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, goodness, honor, integrity, loyalty, morality, principle, probity, rectitude, responsibility, right, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, uprightness, veracity, virtue, bluntness, evenhandedness, genuineness, impeccability, incorruptibility, justness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, reputability, scrupulousness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, lying, treachery, fraudulence |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | onus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | bar sinister, black eye*, blame, blot, blur, brand, charge, duty, encumbrance, fault, guilt, incubus, liability, load, millstone*, obligation, odium, oppression, responsibility, slur, spot, stain, stigma, task, tax, weight, culpability, deadweight |
| Antonyms: | aid, benefit, blessing, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | task |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | job or chore, often assigned |
| Synonyms: | assignment, bother, burden, business, calling, charge, daily grind, duty, effort, employment, enterprise, errand, exercise, function, gig*, grind*, headache*, labor, load, millstone*, mission, nuisance, occupation, office, onus, pain, project, province, responsibility, stint, strain, tax, toil, trouble, undertaking, vocation, work, deadweight, fun and games, grindstone, long row to hoe |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indebtedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficit |
| Synonyms: | debit, debt, liability, obligation, responsibility |
| Main Entry: | burden of proof |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility to prove something |
| Synonyms: | onus, responsibility, onus probandi |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity |
| Synonyms: | assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking, hap, office function |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest, concern |
| Synonyms: | affliction, aggravation, alarm, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apprehension, bother, burden, chagrin, charge, consternation, dismay, disquiet, distress, disturbance, encumbrance, exasperation, fear, foreboding, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, incubus, load, misgiving, nuisance, onus, oppression, pressure, responsibility, solicitude, sorrow, stew, strain, stress, sweat, tribulation, trouble, uneasiness, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, discomposure, fretfulness, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, disregard, ignorance, inattention, neglect, negligence, oversight, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | directive, instruction |
| Synonyms: | act, ban, behest, bidding, call, canon, caveat, charge, citation, commandment, decree, demand, dictate, dictation, dictum, direction, duty, edict, enactment, fiat, imperative, imposition, injunction, law, mandate, notification, obligation, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, prohibition, regulation, request, requirement, requisition, responsibility, rule, subpoena, summons, ultimatum, warrant, will, word, writ, adjuration, devoir, exaction, interdiction, proscription |
| Antonyms: | contradiction, countermand, opposition, recall, reversal, revocation |
| Main Entry: | dependence/dependency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence, reliance |
| Synonyms: | assurance, belief, credence, expectation, faith, hope, responsibility, stability, stock, trust, interdependence, responsibleness, steadiness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | freedom, independence, strength |
| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame, sin; mistake |
| Synonyms: | accountability, blunder, crime, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, responsibility, slip, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing, answerability, culpability, evil doing, loss of innocence, peccancy, slip-up* |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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