Vulnerable \Vul"ner*a*ble\, a. [L. vulnerabilis wounding,
injurious, from vulnerare to wound, vulnus a wound; akin to
Skr. vra?a: cf. F. vuln['e]rable.]
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1. Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or
external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.
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Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will
be wanting a Paris to infix the dart. --Dr. T.
Dwight.
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2. Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously;
assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation.
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His skill in finding out the vulnerable parts of
strong minds was consummate. --Macaulay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vulnerable
adj 1: susceptible to attack; "a vulnerable bridge" [ant: invulnerable]
2: susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation;
"vulnerable to bribery"; "an argument vulnerable to
refutation"
3: capable of being wounded or hurt; "vulnerable parts of the
body"
4: susceptible to physical or emotional injury; "at a tender
age" [syn: tender]
WordNet (r) 2.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "vulnerable":
aidless, answerable for, apt to, assailable, attackable, beatable,
breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, capable of, conquerable,
crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, defenseless,
delicate, dependent on, exposed to, expugnable, fatherless,
fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable,
friendless, guideless, helpless, in danger of, incident to,
lacerable, leaderless, liable to, likely to, motherless, naked to,
obliged to, open to, penetrable, pregnable, prone to, ready for,
responsible for, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery,
splintery, standing to, subject to, surmountable, susceptive to,
unfriended, unprotected, untenable, vincible, weak,
within range of
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
tender
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