Word Meanings - ANSWERABLENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANSWERABLENESS)
- Correspondence
- Fitness
- agreement
- adaptation
- congruity
- answerableness
- match
- congeniality
- communication
- letter
- writing
- despatches
Related words: (words related to ANSWERABLENESS)
- WRITING
1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or - FITNESS
The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office. - WRITATIVE
Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope. - CONGRUITY
Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the - WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer - LETTERER
One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters. - WRIT
3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer. - LETTERURE
Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer. - WRITHLE
To wrinkle. Shak. - MATCHLOCK
An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match. - COMMUNICATION
A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of - LETTERN
See LECTURN - LETTER
A single type; type, collectively; a style of type. Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing house, and that famous letter so much esteemed. Evelyn. 6. pl. (more info) litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere, - MATCH-CLOTH
A coarse cloth. - MATCH PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play. - WRITERSHIP
The office of a writer. - MATCH
1. To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal. No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness. Shak. 2. To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show - LETTERPRESS
Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates. - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - REWRITE
To write again. Young. - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - TYPEWRITING
The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - INTERCOMMUNICATION
Mutual communication. Owen. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - UNDERWRITING
The business of an underwriter, - UNDERWRITER
One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer. - MISMATCH
To match unsuitably. - IMMATCHABLE
Matchless; peerless. Holland. - INCONGRUITY
1. The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety. The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship