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Definition: Culpable |
CulpableAdjective1. Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "culpable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: CulpableSynonyms: blamable (adj), blameable (adj), blameful (adj), blameworthy (adj), censurable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Guilt | Adjective: guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable. |
Vice | Incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible; (guilty). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Culpable |
| English words defined with "culpable": condemnation, Coupable ♦ disapprobation ♦ Mora ♦ Transgressive. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Culpable" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (blamable, blameable, blameworthy, causer, culpable, culprit, enthralling, guilty, offender, peccant). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Mi madre es culpable (1960) Culpable (1960) La Culpable (1946) Nuestro culpable (1938) Cuando es culpable el amor (1983) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Bolivia | Its powers include the authority to conduct administrative investigations and to censure for malpractice judges at all levels found culpable of malfeasance. (references) |
Guatemala | By year's end, the ORP had closed 878 cases, compared with 870 cases in 2000; the investigators found 35 percent of officers culpable and exonerated 65 percent. (references) | |
Political Rights | Philippines | The Senate impeachment trial of President Estrada on charges of bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust, and culpable violation of the Constitution, was preempted on January 17 after a majority of senators voted to block the introduction of certain items of evidence. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Clinton can be held culpable for not doing enough when he was Commander-in-Chief to combat the terrorists who wound up attacking the World Trade Center and Pentagon. |
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James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | Any culpable failure or delay on their part to account for the moneys entrusted to them at the times and in the manner required by law will in every instance terminate the official connection of such defaulting officer with the Government. |
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| "Culpable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Culpable" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 70 | 39,981 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "culpable": culpable carelessness ♦ culpable homicide ♦ culpable neglect ♦ culpable negligence ♦ hold him culpable. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "culpable": non-culpable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
culpable | 11 |
culpable vicentico | 4 |
culpable mp3 vicentico | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "culpable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i fajshëm (blameworthy), fajtor (causer, culprit, delinquent, guilty, stirrer-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملوم, مذنب (found guilty, guilty, sinful, sinful person, sinning), جدير باللوم (censurable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | престъпен (criminal, fell, felonious, flagitious, guilty, maleficent, malfeasant, nefarious, sinful, sinister, tough, wrongful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 有罪 (Culpabilities, Culpability, guilty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zavinìný, vinný (blameworthy, guilty, vinous, viny), trestuhodný (reprehensible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقصر (Culprit, Guilty, Hangdog), مجرم (Convict, Guilty, Wrongdoer), قابل مجازات (Punishable), سزاوارسرزنش (Reprehensible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coupable (culprit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | strafbar (condemnable, criminal, culpably, indictable, liable, penal, penally, prosecutable, punishable), schuldhaft (culpably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ένοχοσ (culprit, guilty), υπαίτιοσ (liable, responsible), αξιόποινοσ (punishable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אשם (accused, blame, blameworthy, fault, guilt, guilty, offence, sin, trespass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vétkes (delinquent, guilty, malicious, offender, peccant, sinful, transgressor, trespasser), hibáztatható (exceptionable), büntetendő (culpable of punishment, felonious, guilty, penal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bersalah (blunder, guilty, offending). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | colpevole (culprit, delinquent, faulty, guiltier, guiltily, guilty, offender, wrong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loghtagh (bad, bad incorrect, blameable, blameworthy, defaulter, defective, delinquent, fault-finding, faulty, illgotten, iniquitous, offending, vicious), kyndagh (convict, criminal, culprit, guilty, malefactor, peccant, trespasser), foiljagh (blameable, blameworthy, offender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulpablecay culpável (blameworthy, guilty). (various references) culpabil (censurable, delinquent, guilty), condamnabil (blamable, blameful, blameworthy, chargeable, condemnable, damnable, damnably, damnatory, detestable, impeachable, imputable, indictable, reprehensible, wicked), vinovat (culprit, delinquent, faulty, guilty). (various references) виновный (culprit, delinquent, guilty). (various references) kriv (awry, bandy, blameworthy, crooked, curved, guilty, leaning, wry). (various references) culpable (blamable, blameable, blameworthy, causer, culprit, enthralling, guilty, offender, peccant). (various references) skyldig (bound, guilty, in debt, liable, obliged), klandervärd (blameworthy, exceptionable, reprehensible). (various references) suçlu (con, convict, criminal, culprit, delinquent, evil doer, felon, guilty, malefactor, misdemeanant, offender, transgressor), kusurlu (defective, faulty, imperfect, inaccurate, incommensurate, incomplete, malformed, peccant, tainted), kabahatli (at fault, blameworthy, guilty, offender, peccant, to blame). (various references) винуватий (guilty, manifest, nocent), злочинний (criminal, felonious, flagitious, gallows, guilty, maleficent, malfeasant, offending, wrong, wrongful). (various references) đáng khiển trách; có tội; tội lỗi. (various references) beius (blameworthy, faulty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nocens. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "culpable": culpableness, culpablenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "culpable": inculpable. (additional references) | |
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"Culpable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: copable, copiable, coulpable, culable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "culpable" (pronounced ku"lpubul) |
| 6 | -l p u b u l | palpable. |
| 5 | -p u b u l | capable, developable, incapable, inescapable, typeable, unflappable, unstoppable. |
| 4 | -u b u l | abominable, acceptable, accessible, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, attributable, audible, available, avoidable, bankable, bearable, believable, billable, biodegradable, breakable, buildable, burnable, callable, cannibal, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, credible, creditable, crucible, curable, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, degradable, delectable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, digestible, disagreeable, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, edible, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, exportable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, formidable, fungible, fusible, gullible, habitable, harvestable, heritable, hon, honorable, horrible, hospitable, identifiable, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immiscible, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, incredible, incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intolerable, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, justifiable, knowledgeable, lamentable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, moldable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, punishable, questionable, quotable, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redoubtable, reducible, refundable, regrettable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, salable, saleable, salvageable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, soluble, solvable, spendable, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, tolerable, traceable, tractable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, tunable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, unbuildable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, washable, wearable, winnable, workable. |
| 3 | -b u l | able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-p-u" | |
-1 letter: bluecap, bullace. | |
-2 letters: bullae, culpae. | |
-3 letters: becap, bulla, cable, cella, culpa, cupel, label, lapel, place. | |
-4 letters: able, alec, bale, ball, beau, bell, blae, blue, bull, call, cape, caul, cell, clap, club, clue, cube, cull, lace, leal, leap, lube, luce, pace, pale, pall, peal, plea, pleb, puce, pula, pule, pull. | |
-5 letters: ace, alb, ale, all, alp. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-p-u" | |
+2 letters: inculpable. | |
+4 letters: culpableness. | |
+5 letters: culpabilities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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