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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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"
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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