Accountable
[ə'kaʊntəb(ə)l] or [ə'kaʊntəbl]
Definition
(adj.) liable to account for one's 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' .
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Definition
(a.) Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
(a.) Capable of being accounted for; explicable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Responsible, answerable, amenable, liable.
Editor: Tess
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Responsible, liable, amenable, punishable, answerable, accredited, delegated,{[eubordj]?}
ANT:Autocratic, Independent, irresponsible, absolute, supreme, despotic
Editor: Lois
Examples
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are a conscientious man, Mr. Garth--a man, I trust, who feels himself accountable to God. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am not accountable to Mr. Jarndyce or Mr. Anybody. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Consider yourself accountable to me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He and they, who wickedly began and madly continue a war for the desolation of America, are accountable for the consequences. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Lois