Thesaurus: answerable

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1. a. 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.
2. a. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
3. a. Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
4. a. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
5. a. Equal; equivalent; adequate.
6. adj. capable of being answered
7. adj. morally or legally responsible to a higher authority
8. adj. liable to account for one's actions
9. 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.
10. j:100 s. capable of being answered s. morally or legally responsible to a higher authority