"culpable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈkʌlpəbəl/ Audio: en-us-culpable.ogg [US] Forms: more culpable [comparative], most culpable [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English culpable, from Old French culpable, from Latin culpabilis (“blameworthy”), from culpare (“to blame, condemn”), from culpa (“fault, crime, mistake”). Compare also culprit. Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|culpable}} Middle English culpable, {{der|en|fro|culpable}} Old French culpable, {{der|en|la|culpabilis||blameworthy}} Latin culpabilis (“blameworthy”), {{m|la|culpare||to blame, condemn}} culpare (“to blame, condemn”), {{m|la|culpa||fault, crime, mistake}} culpa (“fault, crime, mistake”), {{m|en|culprit#Etymology}} culprit Head templates: {{en-adj}} culpable (comparative more culpable, superlative most culpable)
  1. Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty. Derived forms: culpability, culpable homicide, culpable negligence, culpableness, culpably, inculpable, nonculpable, unculpable Translations (blameworthy): виновен (vinoven) (Bulgarian), culpable (Catalan), verwijtbaar (Dutch), schuldig (Dutch), kulpa (Esperanto), syyllinen (Finnish), moitittava (Finnish), coupable (French), verdammenswert (German), schuldig (German), strafbar (German), verdammungswürdig (German), culpandus (Latin), مقصر (moqasser) (Persian), culpável (Portuguese), culpabil (Romanian), вино́вный (vinóvnyj) (Russian), винова́тый (vinovátyj) (Russian), culpable (Spanish), kabahatli (Turkish), kusurlu (Turkish), suçlu (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-culpable-en-adj-E4RShi37 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments

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