Adjacent Words

Imputable definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPU'TABLE, a. [See Impute.] That may be imputed or charged to a person; chargeable. Thus we say, crimes, sins, errors, trespasses are imputable to those who commit them.
1. That may be ascribed to; in a good sense.
This favor is imputable to your goodness, or to a good motive.
2. Accusable; chargeable with a fault. [Not proper.]
3. That may be set to the account of another. It has been a question much agitated, whether Adam's sin is imputable to his posterity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not imputable to him" [syn: ascribable, due, imputable, referable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see impute

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Imputable Im*put"a*ble, a. [Cf. F. imputable.] 1. That may be imputed; capable of being imputed; chargeable; ascribable; attributable; referable. A prince whose political vices, at least, were imputable to mental incapacity. --Prescott. 2. Accusable; culpable. [R.] The fault lies at his door, and she is no wise imputable. --Ayliffe.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Attributable, referrible or referable, chargeable, traceable, owing, to be imputed, to be charged, to be attributed.

Moby Thesaurus

accountable, accusable, alleged, arraignable, ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, chargeable, charged, credited, culpable, derivable from, derivational, derivative, due, explicable, impeachable, imputed, indictable, open to criticism, owing, putative, referable, referred to, reprehensible, reproachable, reprovable, to blame, traceable