answerable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite capable of being answered
  2. adjective satellite morally or legally responsible to a higher authority
    • parents are answerable for their child's acts

WordNet

An"swer*a*ble adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913