Usually means: Capable of being responded to.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word answerable:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. answerable: Merriam-Webster
  2. answerable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. answerable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. answerable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. answerable: Vocabulary.com
  6. answerable: Wordnik
  7. answerable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. answerable: Wiktionary
  9. answerable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. answerable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. answerable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Answerable, answerable: Dictionary.com
  13. Answerable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. answerable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. answerable: Rhymezone
  16. answerable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. answerable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. answerable: FreeDictionary.org
  19. answerable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. answerable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. answerable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. answerable: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. answerable: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. answerable: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.
adjective:  (of a question) Able to be answered.
adjective:  (archaic) Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).
adjective:  (archaic) Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.
adjective:  (rare) Of an argument: capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.

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