Adjective

(en adjective)

Answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.

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, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}

Parents are responsible for their child's behaviour.

Capable of responding to any reasonable claim; able to answer reasonably for one's conduct and obligations; capable of rational conduct.

Involving responsibility; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.

She has a responsible position in the firm.

Being a primary cause or agent of some event or action; capable of being credited for something, or of being held liable for something.

Who is responsible for this mess?

Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.

He looks like a responsible guy.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.

* 1861 , Henry M. Wheeler, The Slaves' Champion , p. 203,

It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit , guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues,

* 1973 , , As If by Magic , Secker and Warburg, p. 177:

"I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."

* 2005 , Larry Dennsion, " Letters," Time , 7 March:

Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.