liable
On the hook
Liable means legally responsible or obligated: The company was held liable for damages.
More loosely, it means likely or apt to do something, usually something undesirable: He's liable to forget if you don't remind him.
The word carries a sense of exposure to risk or consequence—you're liable for debts, liable to catch cold, liable to get in trouble.
Secured or destined
- dutyRequired moral task
- requiredNeeded by rule
- beholdenOwing thanks or duty
- indebtedOwing thanks or money
compelled · answerable · accountable · responsible · obliged · committed · pledged · contracted
Civil court proceeding
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- defendantParty facing charges
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- tortActionable civil harm
damages · indemnity · litigation · breach · malpractice · culpable · actionable · sue
bound
Secured or destined
indebted · compelled · answerable · accountable · responsible · obliged · committed · pledged · contracted · encumbered
lawsuit
Civil court proceeding
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- defendantParty facing charges
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
tort · damages · indemnity · litigation · breach · malpractice · culpable · actionable · sue · verdict
susceptible
Easily influenced or harmed
predisposed · given · subject · tending · disposed · exposed · vulnerable · open · at-risk · accident-prone
- at faultguilty, at fault, to blame, culpable, blameworthy
- accountabilityaccountability, responsibility, accountable, take responsibility, answerability
- prone tolikely, apt, inclined, disposed, given
- Tendenciesprone, apt, inclined, tendency, proclivity
- verdictsguilty verdict, guilty, not guilty, acquitted, innocent
- legalesehereby, herein, hereinafter, hereof, hereto
liableexempt
Not subject to
immune · unaccountable · indemnified · absolved · not responsible
liableimmune
Protected from harm
protected · invulnerable · insusceptible · unsusceptible · safeguarded
liableunlikely
Not apt to happen
improbable · doubtful · disinclined · refractory · resistant
- liability protectionSafeguard against legal claims
- public liabilityLegal responsibility to others
- strict liabilityLegal responsibility without fault
- legal liabilityResponsibility under the law
- liability insuranceCoverage for harm caused
- limited liabilityCapped financial responsibility for owners
reliable, liability, unreliable, reliability, reliably, unreliability, liabilities