Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

answerable

/ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.69 in modern English

Syllables: an-swer-a-ble
IPA: /ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

adj

Able to be answered.

adj

Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).

Archaic

adj

Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.

Archaic

adj

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

Example Sentences

"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 […]"
"Is my question answerable on basis of the reading alone or does it go outside the information given in the story?"
"What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?"
"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."
"[…] 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."
"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree English answer Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English answerable From answer + -able.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl/
British English: /ˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more answerable (comparative) most answerable (superlative) aunswerable (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

answerability answerableness answerably nonanswerable

Synonyms

accountable

Antonyms

unanswerable

Rhymes With

unanswerable

Questions

How do you pronounce answerable?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl/.
What does answerable mean?: Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.
Where does answerable come from?: Etymology tree English answer Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English answerable From answer + -able.

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