Vulnerable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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