LIABLE


Meaning of LIABLE in English

adjective

1.

Synonyms: responsible , accountable, amenable, answerable

Related Word: bound, tied

Contrasted words: exempt, immune; free, independent

2.

being likely to be affected by some usually adverse contingency or action

without the heat shield he was liable to be burned

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

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

Antonyms: unliable

3.

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

Antonyms: unliable

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