2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Answerable \An"swer*a*ble\, a.
1. 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.
Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly
punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.
2. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a
satisfactory answer.
The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable.
--Johnson.
3. Correspondent; conformable; hence comparable.
What wit and policy of man is answerable to their
discreet and orderly course? --Holland.
This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the
apostle to the Thessalonians --Milton.
4. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as an achievement
answerable to the preparation for it
5. Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic]
Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he
had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost
bounds of Britain. --Milton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
answerable
adj 1: liable to be called to account; "you are answerable for this
debt" [syn: {accountable}]
2: possible to answer
3: 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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