Accountable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Accountable \Ac*count"a*ble\, a.
     1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable;
        as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
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     2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.]


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              True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and
              accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. --B.
                                                    Whichcote.
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     Syn: Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  accountable
       adj : liable to account for one's actions; "governments must be
             accountable to someone beside themselves"; "fully
             accountable for what they did"; "the court held the
             parents answerable for their minor child's acts of
             vandalism"; "he was answerable to no one"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "accountable":
     Englishable, alleged, amenable, answerable, ascribable, assignable,
     attributable, attributed, chargeable, charged, construable,
     credited, definable, derivable from, derivational, derivative,
     describable, due, explainable, explicable, imputable, imputed,
     interpretable, liable, obligated, obliged, owing, putative,
     referable, referred to, renderable, responsible, responsible for,
     to blame, traceable, translatable