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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accountable \Ac*count"a*ble\, a. 1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for explicable. [R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. --B. Whichcote Syn: Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: accountable adj 1: liable to be called to account; "you are answerable for this debt" [syn: {answerable}] 2: being obliged to answer to an authority for your actions; "governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves"; "fully accountable for what they did"; "the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism"; "he was answerable to no one" [syn: {accountable(p)}, {answerable(p)}]
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