answerable
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3.6
- adjective
- /ˈæn.sər.ə.bəl/
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respondible
- And that asked just the right kind of question—stimulating, but answerable without undue effort.
- answerable question
So yeah, And I think that's probably an answerable question, right?
- So yeah, And I think that's probably an answerable question, right?
- This question doesn't seem to me answerable by any known method, but it seems to me real.
- Do you have another question that's answerable?
- I I design randomised trials to answer this is an answerable question.
- If you stick to that kind of stick to the land, so to speak, then you can go down this chain of sort of reducible answerable things.
Examples
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Each of us can make our own list of life's answerable questions.
Academic text (2009) -
Conclusion: Therefore, science is the only activity that provides meaningful, answerable questions.
Blog text (25) -
Use Figure 1 to help scale down broad issues to answerable questions.
Academic text (2005) -
Bottom line: do not assume a question is real or answerable just because it causes a state of wondering in you.
Blog text (25) -
At first glance, these two questions might seem to be answerable in very different ways.
Academic text (1997) -
If half the questions about surgical treatment are answerable by controlled trials, there is plenty of work to be done.
Academic text (1996) -
One attraction of questions such as these is that they should be answerable without expensive equipment or trips far from my own backyard.
Academic text (1993) -
To begin, Mr. Henderson and I selected a handful of easily answerable parking lot questions.
Academic text (2014) -
To first approximation, all the answerable ones end up moving into the domain of empirical knowledge, aka science.
Blog text (25) -
The teacher provided examples to ensure all the students had answerable questions during the discussion.
Synonyms
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3.2
A problem you can find an answer to
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4.4
A problem that can be solved or fixed
Someone can understand or solve it if they try
Antonyms
How Answerable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Answerable comes from the simple verb answer plus the ending -able, where -able means 'can be done'. So a question described as answerable is one that 'can be answered' or solved.