answerable

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of ANSWERABLE

being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so <you are answerable for your own conduct at all times>

Synonyms accountable, amenable, answerable, liable

Related Words beholden, indebted, obligated, obliged

Near Antonyms exempt, immune

Antonyms irresponsible, nonaccountable, unaccountable

capable of having the reason for or cause of determined <they say this equation is not answerable>

Synonyms answerable, explainable, explicable, resolvable, soluble

Related Words analyzable, decipherable; feasible, workable

Near Antonyms difficult, inextricable, knotty; impossible, insuperable; absurd, fantastic (also fantastical), outlandish, preposterous, ridiculous

Antonyms hopeless, inexplicable, insoluble, insolvable, unexplainable, unresolvable, unsolvable

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