Synonyms for blame
- verb
- noun
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Fault — to censure (someone or something); to criticize
fault, accuse, condemn, reproach, censure, find fault, scold, charge, charre UK, criticize UK US, criticise UK, reprove, reprimand, rebuke, disapprove, chide formal, decry, twit, denounce, take to task, incriminate, reproof, pan, reprobate
Other
Noun
1. Condemnation — censure
condemnation, onus, criticism, disapproval, disapprobation, condemning, opprobrium, damnation, vituperation, stricture, castigation, obloquy, reprehension rare, animadversion rare
2. Inculpation
incrimination, inculpation rare
Other
culpability, guilt, impeachment, imputation, rap slang
Adjective
Definitions
- v. 1
To censure (someone or something); to criticize.
- v. 2
To bring into disrepute.
- n. 1
Censure.
Blame came from all directions.
- adj. 1
euphemism of damn (intensifier)
Related words
- Word family
- blameful blameless blameworthy blamable
- Phrases
- to blame blame game
- Is a kind of
- ascribe
Forms
- Past participle
- blamed
e.g. blamed → faulted, accused, condemned, reproached…
Choose the right word
Condemn is more final than blame or censure; a condemned criminal has had his trial; a condemned building can not stand; a condemned ship can not sail.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- fault Tom's actions aren't my fault. Just remember that.
- condemn Would you condemn your friend for the same thing?
- accuse Do people ever accuse you of being self-indulgent?
- pick Could you send someone up to pick up some laundry?
By length
- 3 letters
- pan1, rap1
- 4 letters
- pick1, damn1, onus2, twit
- 5 letters
- wrong1, fault1, guilt1, scold1, decry2, chide1
- 6 letters
- charge1, damned1, accuse2, rebuke2, darned1, impugn2, deuced, charre
- 7 letters
- blessed1, goddamn2, condemn2, blasted2, censure2, blacken2, reproof, reprove, obloquy3
- 8 letters
- disgrace2, denounce2, infernal3, reproach2, besmirch
- 9 letters
- criticism4, criticize3, criticise, damnation3, goddamned2, reprimand3, reprobate3, stricture2
- 10 letters
- condemning3, disapprove3, imputation4, opprobrium4
- 11 letters
- impeachment3, disapproval4, culpability5, incriminate4, castigation, inculpation
- 12 letters
- condemnation4, vituperation, reprehension
- 13 letters
- incrimination5, animadversion
- 14 letters
- disapprobation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (onus2 = 2 syllables).