answerable

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “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. sıfat Able to be answered.

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

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

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

4. sıfat Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.

   “[…] 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.”

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

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