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Answerable vs Exposed - What's the difference?

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Answerable is a related term of exposed.


As adjectives the difference between answerable and exposed

is that answerable is obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible while exposed is vulnerable, susceptible.

As a verb exposed is

(expose).

answerable

English

Alternative forms

* aunswerable (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible.
    • Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.
  • (archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable ((to)).
    • What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? --Holland.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
  • Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
  • (rare) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
    • The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable . --Johnson.

    Derived terms

    * answerability

    Antonyms

    * unanswerable

    exposed

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Vulnerable, susceptible.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed' to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (expose)