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Answerable

//ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.

    "1731, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man, with respect to Religion and Government” in Miscellanies, London: Benjamin Motte and Charles Bathurst, Volume I, Section 2, p. 91, Should any Man argue, that […] he cannot be justly punished, but is answerable only to God […]"

  2. 2
    Able to be answered.

    "Is my question answerable on basis of the reading alone or does it go outside the information given in the story?"

  3. 3
    Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to). archaic

    "What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?"

  4. 4
    Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable. archaic

    "[…] at my farm / I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, / Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls, / And all things answerable to this portion."

  5. 5
    Of an argument: capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. rare

    "[T]he argument, though ſubtle, is yet anſwerable."

Adjective
  1. 1
    liable to account for one's actions wordnet
  2. 2
    morally or legally responsible to a higher authority wordnet
  3. 3
    capable of being answered wordnet

Etymology

From answer + -able.

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