answerable

Able to reply

Answerable means able to be answered or required to answer.

A question is answerable if it can be responded to: That's not an answerable question without more data.

A person answerable to someone must account for their actions: The committee is answerable to the board.

To be answerable for something is to bear responsibility: You'll be answerable for any damage.

accountable

responsible

Obligated to answer for actions

blameable · culpable · chargeable · amenable · obligated · duty-bound · bound · beholden · subject · subordinate

solvable

solvable

Capable of resolution

manageable · determinable · decidable · workable · feasible · explicable · fathomable · decipherable · crackable

responsive

reply

Verbal or written answer

retort · rebuttal · counter · feedback · explanation · clarification · defense · acknowledgment · justification · rationale

refutable

rebuttable

Capable of being disproved

debatable · questionable · arguable · controvertible · deniable · impugnable · opposable

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accountability/responsibility

answerableunaccountable

Not required to justify

irresponsible · exempt · nonaccountable · immune · independent

SOLVABILITY (of questions/problems)

answerableunanswerable

Impossible to refute

unsolvable · insoluble · insolvable · unresolvable · inexplicable

refutability/defensibility

answerableirrefutable

Impossible to disprove

unanswerable · unassailable · incontrovertible · undeniable · incontestable

Family

unanswerable, answerability

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