Answerable Meaning
/ˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjRequired to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.
adjAble to be answered.
Sentence Examples
I am not answerable to you for anything.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
As the team leader, you are ____ for the project's success or failure.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The manager is ____ to the director for the project's overall success.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English answer Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English answerable From answer + -able.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Is my question answerable on basis of the reading alone or does it go outside the information given in the story?"
— 2013, Marc Moeller, Victor Moeller, Middle School English Teacher's Guide to Active Learning, page 67:
"What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?"
— 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XI.] chapter 5 “Of Bees,”.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 312:
"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."
— 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11:
"[…] 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."
— c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
"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."
— c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
As the team leader, you are ____ for the project's success or failure.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The manager is ____ to the director for the project's overall success.