answerable

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/|/ˈɑːnsɹəb(ə)l/    美 /ˈæn.səɹ.ə.bl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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. 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. Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to). archaic
    — What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?
  4. Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable. archaic
    — […] 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. Of an argument: capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. rare
    — [T]he argument, though ſubtle, is yet anſwerable.

词形变化

more answerable comparative most answerable superlative aunswerable alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

反义词
unanswerable
衍生词
answerability answerableness answerably nonanswerable

词源

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.
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