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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | responsible for having done |
| Synonyms: | answerable, charged with, culpable, liable, obligated, obliged, on the hook |
| Notes: | to be accountable is to be liable to being called to account or answerable; liable means legally obligated or responsible; and responsible is liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust |
| Antonyms: | blameless, innocent, irresponsible, unaccountable, unreliable, untrustworthy |
| Main Entry: | answerable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | responsible |
| Synonyms: | accountable, amenable, bound, chargeable, compelled, constrained, liable, obligated, obliged, subject, to blame |
| Antonyms: | irrefutable, unaccountable, unprovable |
| Main Entry: | calculable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be computed or estimated |
| Synonyms: | accountable, ascertainable, computable, countable, discoverable, estimable, foreseeable, measurable, predictable, reckonable |
| Antonyms: | incalculable, inestimable, uncomputable |
| Main Entry: | indebted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under an obligation |
| Synonyms: | accountable, answerable for, appreciative, beholden, bound, bounden, chargeable, duty-bound, grateful, honor-bound, hooked, in debt, in hock, liable, obligated, obliged, owed, owing, responsible, thankful |
| Antonyms: | paid, settled |
| Main Entry: | liable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | answerable, responsible |
| Synonyms: | accountable, amenable, bound, chargeable, obligated, subject, tied |
| Notes: | to be accountable is to be liable to being called to account or answerable; liable means legally obligated or responsible; and responsible is liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust apt is for general probabilities, likely is for specific probabilities; liable and prone indicate a probability arising as a regrettable consequence use likely if you mean 'probable, expected'; use liable if you mean 'bound by law or obligation' |
| Antonyms: | excusable, freed, irresponsible, unaccountable |
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the mercy of; answerable |
| Synonyms: | accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable |
| Antonyms: | master |
| Main Entry: | explainable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explicable |
| Synonyms: | accountable, intelligible, understandable |
| Main Entry: | traceable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | capable of being traced |
| Synonyms: | accountable, ascribable, attributable, derivative, detectable, identifiable, referable, trackable, verifiable |
| Main Entry: | illustratable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explainable |
| Synonyms: | accountable, decipherable, explicable, intelligible, interpretable, understandable |
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