liability
liability
nounDefinition of LIABILITY
1
a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success <a retired football player whose chief asset—his prodigious girth—has now become a liability>
Synonyms debit, disbenefit, downside, drawback, handicap, incommodity, liability, minus, negative, strike
Related Words albatross, millstone, stranglehold; disability, impairment; failing, shortcoming; bar, catch, check, clog, crimp, embarrassment, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, rub, shackle, stop, trammel
Near Antonyms vantage; head start, jump, lead, margin, start; ascendancy (also ascendency), better, command, control, drop, mastery, predominance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, upper hand; prerogative, privilege; break, opportunity; aid, assistance, help
2
the state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right <the liability for the accident is held by the person who was driving too fast>
Related Words accountability, answerability
3
the state of being left without shelter or protection against something harmful <failure to properly clean the wound could increase your liability to infection>
Related Words predisposition, susceptibility; defenselessness, helplessness, weakness; danger, jeopardy, peril, risk
4
the quality or state of being likely to occur <what's the liability that he'll file a formal complaint if he's refused admission?>
Synonyms liability, likelihood
Related Words credibility, plausibility, plausibleness; feasibility, feasibleness, possibility, potentiality, reasonability, reasonableness, viability
Near Antonyms doubtfulness, dubiousness; impracticability, impracticality; implausibility, incredibility, incredibleness
usually liabilities plsomething (as money) which is owed <your liabilities total about $200,000>
