answerable — Diccionario de inglés

Adjetivo

1. Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.

   Ejemplos

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   1731, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man, with respect to Religion and Government” in Miscellanies, London: Benjamin Motte and Charles Bathurst, Volume I, Section 2, p. 91, Should any Man argue, that […] he cannot be justly punished, but is answerable only to God […]

2. Able to be answered.

   Uso

   • of a question

   Ejemplos

   Is my question answerable on basis of the reading alone or does it go outside the information given in the story?

3. Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).

   Uso

   • arcaico

   Ejemplos

   What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?

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   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.

4. Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.

   Uso

   • arcaico

   Ejemplos

   […] at my farm / I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, / Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls, / And all things answerable to this portion.

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   By my other wife I had a daughter, so hard favoured, so foule and ill faced, that I thinke a grove full of golden trees; and the leaves of Rubies and Dyamonds, would not bee a dowrie aunswerable to her deformitie.

5. Of an argument: capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.

   Uso

   • raro

   Ejemplos

   [T]he argument, though ſubtle, is yet anſwerable.

Adjetivo

1. capable of being answered

2. morally or legally responsible to a higher authority

   Ejemplos

   parents are answerable for their child's acts

3. liable to account for one's actions

   Sinónimos

   accountable

   Ejemplos

   governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves

   fully accountable for what they did

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   the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism

   he was answerable to no one