Answerable vs Nonanswerable - What's the difference?
answerable | nonanswerable |
Obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible.
(archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable ((to)).
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
(rare) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
As adjectives the difference between answerable and nonanswerable
is that answerable is obliged to answer or be called to account ((to) somebody); accountable, responsible while nonanswerable is not answerable.answerable
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Alternative forms
* aunswerable (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? --Swift.
- What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? --Holland.
- 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.
- The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable . --Johnson.