Answerable

Definition of Answerable

An´swer`a`ble

a.	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. Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. - Milton.

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