Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Subject to being called to answer; accountable: synonym: responsible.
- adjective Capable of being answered or refuted.
- adjective Archaic Suitable; appropriate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being answered; admitting of a satisfactory reply.
- Liable to give an account or to be called to account; responsible; amenable: as, an agent is answerable to his principal.
- Correspondent; similar; agreeing; in conformity; suitable; proportionate; correlative; equal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible
- adjective Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
- adjective Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
- adjective Proportionate; commensurate; suitable.
- adjective Archaic Equal; equivalent; adequate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obliged to
answer or be called toaccount (to somebody);accountable ,responsible . - adjective archaic
Correspondent , inaccordance ;comparable (to ). - adjective
Proportionate ;commensurate in amount;suitable . - adjective rare Capable of being answered or
refuted ; admitting a satisfactory answer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being answered
- adjective morally or legally responsible to a higher authority
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lowth's translation, "He was made answerable," is hardly admitted by the Hebrew. opened not ... mouth -- Jer 11: 19; and David in Ps 38: 13, 14; 39: 9, prefiguring Messiah (Mt 26: 63; 27: 12, 14; 1Pe 2: 23).
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Besides, the Emperor thought, that this was the only title answerable to its high destination.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II Pierre Alexandre ��douard Fleury de Chaboulon 1807
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Either the Police Authorities are "answerable" with elected representatives (even nominees by local authorities), or they are stuffed with apparatchiks.
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Being 'answerable' to the culture meant, in this context, something like 'giving permission' – as we'd now say – to the artist to raise issues, to give room for voices that might otherwise be suppressed.
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On the one hand, Christians are 'answerable' to the ambient culture in the sense that they are there not to dictate but to serve; the Church is not a body that arbitrarily sets the agenda for society at large, but seeks to discern what needs it must meet.
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While teachers may be "answerable" to parents, in the end teachers have no direct accountability to parents the fact that they should is a discussion for another time.
Archive 2006-12-01 Matt Johnston 2006
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While teachers may be "answerable" to parents, in the end teachers have no direct accountability to parents the fact that they should is a discussion for another time.
Petition to Jettison NCLB--What a Joke Matt Johnston 2006
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Post subject: How do I find out who my college is "answerable" t
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My own feeling is that the problem of evil is not an "answerable" question.
David Michael Bruno 2009
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Philippines-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is 'answerable' for the 'stinking' $329-million National Broadband
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