Synonyms for liable
ˈlaɪ ə bəlli·able

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1. liable

   Apt implies a natural fitness or tendency; an impetuous person is apt to speak hastily. Liable refers to a contingency regarded as unfavorable; as, the ship was liable to founder at any moment. Likely refers to a contingent event regarded as very probable, and usually, tho not always, favorable; as, an industrious worker is likely to succeed. Credible signifies readily to be believed; as, a credible narrative; likely in such connection is used ironically to signify the reverse; as, a likely story! A thing is conceivable of which the mind can entertain the possibility; a thing is conjectural which is conjectured as possible or probable without other support than a conjecture, or tentative judgment; a thing is presumable which, from what is antecedently known, may betaken for granted in advance of proof. Reasonable in this connection signifies such as the reason can be satisfied with, independently of external grounds for belief or disbelief; as, that seems a reasonable supposition. Compare APPARENT.

   Synonyms:
   apt, conceivable, conjectural, credible, likely, presumable, probable, reasonable

   Antonyms:
   doubtful, dubious, improbable, incredible, questionable, unlikely, unreasonable

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1. apt(p), liable(p)adjective

   at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant

   "he is apt to lose"; "she is liable to forget"

   Antonyms:
   insusceptible, irresponsible, unlikely, exempt, unsusceptible

2. liable(p)adjective

   subject to legal action

   "liable to criminal charges"

   Antonyms:
   unsusceptible, insusceptible, exempt, unlikely, irresponsible

3. liable(p), nonimmune, nonresistant, unresistantadjective

   (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with

   "liable to diabetes"

   Antonyms:
   insusceptible, unlikely, irresponsible, unsusceptible, exempt

4. liableadjective

   held legally responsible

   "men between the ages of 18 and 35 were liable for military service"

   Synonyms:
   nonresistant, unresistant, liable(p), apt(p), nonimmune

   Antonyms:
   unlikely, exempt, insusceptible, irresponsible, unsusceptible

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1. liableadjective

   Synonyms:
   answerable, responsible, accountable, amenable

2. liableadjective

   Synonyms:
   exposed, subject, obnoxious

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1. liableadjective

   Synonyms:
   exposed, subject, accountable, answerable, amenable, bound

   Antonyms:
   exempt, immune

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1. List of paraphrases for "liable":

   responsible, punishable, accountable, likely, subject, responsibility, susceptible

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1. Pamela Chisanga:

   There was very small print on the bottom of the forms that these communities were signing, that this was all the company was liable to provide to them as compensation.

2. Alan Jackson:

   He is liable for amisdemeanorif it can be established that he willfully exposed himself to a sexual partner while he was afflicted with HIV, in other words, it is a crime to intentionally place another person at risk of contracting your contagious disease.

3. Polk County:

   No one in that house, that night, intended for those babies to have that event that occurred, obviously the 3-year-old's not going to be charged with a criminal event, for obvious reasons. That child can't be held accountable for his conduct -- there is absolutely no reason to think that that was an intentional act other than he was a baby playing with what he saw was some sort of toy. But, we will hold the adults appropriately criminally liable for the conduct.

4. John Locke:

   Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

5. Malcolm Muggeridge:

   The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.