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Responsable vs Answerable - What's the difference?

responsable | answerable |

As adjectives the difference between responsable and answerable

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

responsable

English

Adjective

(head)
    • ----

    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