accountable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite 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

WordNet

Ac*count"a*ble adjective
Definitions
  1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
  2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. R.
    True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.
    Syn. -- Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.

Webster 1913