Adjective: culpable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more culpable |
| Superlative | most culpable |
Sample Sentences
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I am culpable for stealing your money.
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It would be […] impossible to list all the reasons why one might keep their sexuality hidden, and by no means is it culpable for a person to fear for their job or their family's esteem [1971, Nancy Walker, “Out Of The Closet And Into The World”, in Body Politic, number 1, page 13:]
Adjectives inflected like culpable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English culpable, from Old French culpable, from Latin culpābilis (“blameworthy”), from culpō (“to blame, condemn”), from culpa (“a fault, crime, mistake”). Compare also culprit. See: Latin Adjectives '
culpābilis'.