1.Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. "Will any man argue that... he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God?"
2.Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. "The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable."
3.Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. "What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?" "This revelation... was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians."
4.Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
5.Equal; equivalent; adequate. (Archaic) "Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain."
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