chargeable

Speech parts

1. chargeable - Adjective

2. chargeable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.

Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder.

Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

responsible liable attributable accountable answerable indictable imputable assessable accusable billable due important subject criminal guilty
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Antonyms

available easy broad autonomous eager detached
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Phrases with the word

not chargeable to re-chargeable chargeable for

Examples

Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different. Joseph Priestley

A man may be ungrateful but is less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor. François de La Rochefoucauld

Although neither nation has been brought to admit that they were chargeable with the first infraction, yet no American can forget the carrying off the negroes. John Adams

And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them. John Locke

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be. William Shakespeare

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Close letter words and terms

charge-coupled device charge-density wave charge-exchange accelerator chargeable for chargeableness chargeably