Answerable
['ɑːns(ə)rəb(ə)l] or ['ænsərəbl]
Definition
(adj.) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority; 'parents are answerable for their child's acts' .
(adj.) capable of being answered .
Checked by Annabelle--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(a.) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
(a.) Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
(a.) Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
(a.) Equal; equivalent; adequate.
Typist: Millie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Refutable, that may be answered.[2]. Accountable, responsible, amenable, liable.[3]. Corresponding, correspondent, correlative, proportionate, suitable, suited, fit.
Editor: Pierre
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Liable, amenable, accountable, responsible, correspondent, agreeing
ANT:Independent, unanswerable, irresponsible, different, unsuitable, disagreeing,dissimilar
Typist: Wesley
Examples
- You are answerable for this! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For everything of that nature I will be answerable, said Tom, in a decided tone. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Lawyer Lightwood, take care, you, what I say; for I judge you'll be answerable for follering it up! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But, now I know this fellow's answerable for it, and I'll have it! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I did everything for the beSt. I am not answerable for a deplorable calamity, which it was quite impossible to foresee. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You are only answerable to yourself, but I have to answer to my superiors. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But, at the same time, he let me see--purposely, as I thought--that he did not consider me as the person chiefly answerable for the loss of the jewel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Just so: I think so: and you shall be answerable for it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am no more answerable for this distressing calamity, my lady, than you are, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Perhaps there was some truth in _this_; though I doubt whether _his_ reserve, or _anybody's_ reserve, can be answerable for the event. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Rather say your mother's imprudence, my child, said Mrs. Dashwood; SHE must be answerable. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Fail not in this, as thou wilt be answerable. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Typist: Wesley