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What is "answerable" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does answerable mean in English? Meaning of answerable definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "answerable" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "answerable": capable of being answered

Adjective

  • Meaning: capable of being answered
  • Synonyms: answerable
  • Similar: soluble

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈæn.sɛɹ.ʌ.bl/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɑːsəɹəb(ə)l/

    Meaning of "answerable": morally or legally responsible to a higher authority

    Adjective

  • Meaning: morally or legally responsible to a higher authority
  • Example: parents are answerable for their child's acts
  • Synonyms: answerable
  • Similar: responsible

    • Pronunciation in US: /ˈæn.sɛɹ.ʌ.bl/

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈɑːsəɹəb(ə)l/

  • Adjective: Obliged to answer or be called to account (to somebody); accountable, responsible. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.(archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to). What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? --Holland. 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica: To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica: To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.(now rare) Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.(rare) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. --Johnson.

    • Synonyms:

    obliged, accountable, amenable, obligated, liable, bound, chargeable, subject, constrained, compelled, to blame,

    Antonyms:

    irresponsible, unaccountable, irrefutable, unprovable,

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