Meaning
- (noun) The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable. “Responsibility is a heavy burden.”
- (noun) The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
- (noun) A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable. “Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility!”
- (noun) 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.
- (noun) The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.
Letter breakdown
- Responsibility contains 14 letters: 5 vowel(s) and 9 consonant(s).
- It uses 11 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 6.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 21.
Synonyms
Words from these letters
- possibility
- responsibly
- sensibility
- ostensibly
- portliness
- pointless
- seniority
- splinters
- biopsies
- blisters
- bolsters
- briniest
- bristles
- elisions
- epsilons
- inspires
- lobsters
- nobility
- noisiest
- nostrils
- oiliness
- pitiless
- pointers
- pointier
- polities
- possible
- possibly
- priestly
- pristine
- prosiest
- proteins
- ripostes
- senility
- sensibly
- sinister
- sirloins
- sisterly
- sobriety
- spiniest
- spinster
- splinter
- spoilers
- bestirs
- bistros
- blister
- boilers
- bolster
- boniest
- bossier
- bossily
- bristle
- bristly
- bylines
- elision
- enlists
- entropy
- epsilon
- ineptly
- inertly
Connected words
Other 14-letter words
- abstractnesses
- accommodations
- accompaniments
- accomplishment
- accountability
- acknowledgment
- acupuncturists
- administrating
- administration
- administrative
- administrators
- advantageously
- advertisements
- affectionately
- aforementioned
- agglomerations
- agglutinations
- aggrandizement
Words starting with RES
- resale
- resales
- reschedule
- rescheduled
- reschedules
- rescheduling
- rescind
- rescinded
- rescinding
- rescinds
- rescission
- rescue
- rescued
- rescuer
- rescuers
- rescues
- rescuing
- research
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Words ending with ITY
Reader questions
What does Responsibility mean?
The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
How many letters are in Responsibility?
Responsibility has 14 letters.
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