Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
liable to account for one's actions;
- Example: "governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves"- Example: "fully accountable for what they did"- Example: "the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism"- Example: "he was answerable to no one"
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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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"
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