liable
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5.0
- adjective
- /ˈlaɪəbl/
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propenso a
- If you don't wear a coat, you're liable to catch a cold in this weather.
- liable to change
- more liable
- liable to turn
There are other things which are less liable to be eroded by time.
- There are other things which are less liable to be eroded by time.
- And many people knew that informing for the Crown was liable to cost them their lives.
- So the fact that, you know, it does affect us makes us more liable to greater anger.
- And when you fall, no matter how good your bones are, you're liable to break something.
- So the guy who was in where he came through Black Hill as well and he said watch him, he's liable to come in in the morning.
- It's like just poke anywhere and I'm, I'm liable just to start crying, man.
- If you fail on doing that, you're liable to get shot because then I, I, I don't know if you've stabbed me in the back.
- They haven't they, they, they don't, they don't need to because they're not liable to teach these, to teach people this stuff.
- I mean, the man man's liable to, you know, he must be having such a hard time.
Examples
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And when you fall, no matter how good your bones are, you're liable to break something.
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You're liable to get pneumonia.
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In any case, the process is liable to take a good deal of time.
Fiction book (1994) -
If we stay in one place long enough, those things are liable to come back.
Fiction book (1999) -
We're liable to be up in these hills a long time.
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And I'm liable to mess it up.
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Without it, they are liable to blow us out of existence from orbit.
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Now I realized the place was liable to be unrecognizable by the time we got back.
Fiction book (1999) -
Since communism is no longer acceptable, they are liable to turn to some form of nationalism.
Academic text (1996) -
Anything's liable to happen.
Synonyms
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4.0
Likely to get sick or to forget things
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3.2
Likely to do something, often by habit
Easily harmed by disease or chemicals
Easily suffers harm from disease, force, or other influence
Not protected against a disease and likely to get it
Antonyms
How Likely
Surface Forms
Etymology
Liable comes from an old root ligare meaning 'to bind'. So if you are liable to make mistakes, you are like someone 'bound' to do them and therefore likely to make them.