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. Roger Sherman:

   If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism

2. Andrew Park:

   Whereas in an IPO, issuers and underwriters are liable for making false and misleading forward looking statements, SPACs are not subject to that same standard, that has emboldened many pre-revenue companies in highly speculative industries such as electric vehicles, cryptocurrency, and space exploration to make what might generously be called very rosy projections.

3. Benjamin Franklin:

   I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   Look George, if you have a small gun shop owner in Northern Vermont who sells a gun legally to somebody and then, you know, something happens to that guy, he goes nuts or something, and he kills somebody, should the gun shop owner be held liable? I think not.

5. Tom Werner:

   If you just broadly endorse the Green New Deal, you are liable to upset one side of the aisle or the other. And that's not constructive, the idea that you could go 100 percent (clean energy) in 10 years would require a lot of things happening perfectly, simultaneously.