imputable.

Able to be assigned to a particular person or cause as their responsibility or effect.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• imputable to negligence
• imputable fault

On the page

The loss was imputable to faulty storage rather than to the supplier.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: causation. Commonness: uncommon.