Accountable

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
accountable
    adj 1: liable to account for one's actions; "governments must be
           accountable to someone beside themselves"; "fully
           accountable for what they did"; "the court held the
           parents answerable for their minor child's acts of
           vandalism"; "he was answerable to no one"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Accountable \Ac*count"a*ble\, a.
   1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable;
      as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
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   2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.]
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            True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and
            accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. --B.
                                                  Whichcote.
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   Syn: Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "accountable":
      Englishable, alleged, amenable, answerable, ascribable, assignable,
      attributable, attributed, chargeable, charged, construable,
      credited, definable, derivable from, derivational, derivative,
      describable, due, explainable, explicable, imputable, imputed,
      interpretable, liable, obligated, obliged, owing, putative,
      referable, referred to, renderable, responsible, responsible for,
      to blame, traceable, translatable

    

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