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lyable

lyable is the obsolete form of liable.

Meaning of liable

Adjective

liable (comparative more liable, superlative most liable)

  1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
    • The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
  2. Subject; susceptible; prone.
    • This crime is liable to imprisonment for life.
  3. Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
    • Electronic devices are liable to malfunction when exposed to extreme heat.
  4. (predicative) Likely.
    • Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.

Forms of lyable

comparativemore lyable
superlativemost lyable

Questions about lyable

What is lyable the obsolete form of?
Lyable is the obsolete form of liable.

Words near lyable in the dictionary

  1. LXs
  2. LXX
  3. ly
  4. ly-
  5. Ly-α
  6. lyable
  7. Lyakhavichy
  8. Lyal
  9. Lyall
  10. Lyall's wren
  11. Lyall's wrens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lyable (page history and authors); liable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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