Adjective

(en adjective)

Answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.

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Parents are responsible for their child's behaviour.

Capable of responding to any reasonable claim; able to answer reasonably for one's conduct and obligations; capable of rational conduct.

Involving responsibility; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.

She has a responsible position in the firm.

Being a primary cause or agent of some event or action; capable of being credited for something, or of being held liable for something.

Who is responsible for this mess?

Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.

He looks like a responsible guy.

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.