accountable

Speech parts

1. accountable - Adjective

2. accountable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

Capable of being accounted for; explicable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

responsible liable amenable answerable chargeable bound obligated in charge held responsible democratic computable countable accountancy important required
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Antonyms

weird freak shifty slipshod absolute illegal
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Phrases with the word

hold accountable be accountable hold accountable for accountable for accountable borrower accountable unit

Examples

If people only knew that for every word they will be held accountable on The Judgment Day, the world would calm down. Iliy (Nozdrin)

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. John Stuart Mill

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. Ronald Reagan

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? Bell hooks

Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. John Tyler

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. Benjamin Disraeli

Close letter words and terms

accountability buddy accountability culture accountability partner accountable borrower accountable depot accountable disbursing officer