LIABLE


Meaning of LIABLE in English

adj. Function: adjective

1

Synonyms: RESPONSIBLE , accountable, amenable, answerable

Related Words: bound, tied

Contrasted Words: exempt, immune; free, independent

2 being likely to be affected by some usually adverse contingency or action FF1C; without the heat shield he was liable to be burned FF1E;

Synonyms: exposed, obnoxious, open, prone, sensitive, subject, susceptible

Related Words: assailable, penetrable, vulnerable; attackable, beatable, conquerable, vincible

Antonyms: unliable

3

Synonyms: APT 1, given, inclined, likely, prone

Antonyms: unliable

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