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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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