answerable

IPA（発音記号）

形容詞

疑問文古語項稀用

日本語の意味

自分の行動に対して説明責任がある、責任を問われる / 質問に対して答えが出せる、回答可能な / （古語）一致する、適合する、比較できる

As a public official, she is answerable to the council for every decision she makes.

公職にある彼女は、自分の下すすべての決定について評議会に説明する義務がある。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(of a question) Able to be answered.

意味（3）

(archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).

What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?

意味（4）

(now rare) Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.

[…] 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.

意味（5）

(rare, of an argument) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.

[T]he argument, though ſubtle, is yet anſwerable.