| Liable 1. (a.) Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. (v. t.) Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident. Thesaurus Entries accountable, actionable, amenable, answerable, answerable for, apt, assailable, attackable, beatable, blameworthy, bound, chargeable, conquerable, disposed, exposed, fair, foreseeable, given, hopeful, in the cards, inclined, likely, naked, nonimmune, obligated, obnoxious, odds-on, open, penetrable, pledged, predictable, predictable within limits, presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, prone, responsible, responsible for, sensitive, statistically probable, subject, susceptible, tied, to blame, verisimilar, vincible, vulnerable |