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blamable

blamable

6.3
Deserving criticism for doing something wrong or causing harm
  • adjective
  • /ˈbleɪməbl/
translation icon : culpable
  • The committee deemed her behavior blamable for its negative impact on team morale.

Examples

  • His actions were blamable because he ignored the safety instructions during the experiment.

  • But when you know for yourselves, 'These things are unwholesome; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to harm and suffering,' then you should abandon them.

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  • The Supercommittee's inevitable failure will be blamable on the left's religious addiction to bureaucracy and welfare programs that pay the bureaucrats far better than the recipients.

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  • After reviewing the incident, the manager concluded that the blamable decisions led to the project's failure.

Synonyms

reprehensible
vsblamable
  • Formal
50 7.9

Morally wrong and deserving strong criticism

is milder and used for ordinary blame not extreme condemnation
culpable
vsblamable
26 7.5

Deserving blame for doing something wrong

is centered on moral censure rather than legal responsibility
damnable
vsblamable
  • Formal
10 8.5

Something that people strongly blame or hate for being very bad

is milder focusing on blame or censure rather than detestation
blameworthy
vsblamable
1 6.5

Deserving blame for doing something wrong or harmful

is firmer implying formal censure or more serious moral fault
condemnable
vsblamable
1 7.5

Deserving strong criticism for being wrong

is more general and fits many blame contexts not only severe moral rejection
discreditable
vsblamable
1 7.6

Likely to harm someone's reputation by showing shameful behaviour

is centered on moral blame and disapproval rather than harm to reputation
blameful
vsblamable
1 7.9

Deserving criticism because someone did something wrong

is stronger morally and implies worse wrongdoing
blameable
vsblamable
6.4

People think it caused harm or did something wrong

is the same meaning but uses the other common spelling
censurable
vsblamable
  • Formal
8.9

Deserving blame or formal criticism

is broader and applies beyond formal or official disapproval

Antonyms

innocent
∞ 2.2

Not guilty of a crime or wrongdoing

blameless
18 3.6

Not guilty of any wrong

How Blameworthy

reprehensible
  • Formal
50 7.9
guilty
∞ 2.3
blamable
6.3
blameless
18 3.6

Surface Forms

blamable positive

Morphology

blamable = blame (transparent) = blame + able

Formed by the productive suffix '-able' added to 'blame' meaning 'worthy of or able to be blamed', which is directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

The word blamable comes from the common word blame, which means to say someone is at fault, plus the ending -able, meaning 'able to'. So blamable is 'able to be blamed' or deserving blame.