answerable

Speech parts

1. answerable - Adjective

2. answerable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.

Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.

Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.

Equal; equivalent; adequate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

important subject account chargeable responsible bound accused answer guilty blame soluble constrained liable accountable punishable
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Antonyms

beneficent known complete clear indubitable positive
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Phrases with the word

answerable branch not answerable answerable question hold answerable for

Examples

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage. Plutarch

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us. Basil of Caesarea

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision. Thomas Jefferson

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. Daniel Webster

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. John Henry Newman

Close letter words and terms

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