Answerable

1. a. Equal; equivalent; adequate.
2. a. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.
3. a. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
4. a. Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
5. a. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.