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]

English

Etymology

Latin vulnerabilis, from vulnerare 'to wound'. See also -able.

Pronunciation

/ˈvʌlnərəbəl/, /"vVln@r@b@l/

Adjective

vulnerable

1. Exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

Proper noun

vulnerable

1. If you lose the round, more points will be taken; if you win the round, more points will be given in higher contracts.

Synonyms

• defenceless
• helpless
• unguarded
• unprotected
• weak
• super weak*

Antonyms

• invulnerable
• invincible

Derived terms

• vulnerability (noun)
• vulnerably (adverb)

Translations

• Chinese: 脆弱的, 敏感的
• Dutch: kwetsbaar
• Finnish: haavoittuvainen, herkkä
• French: vulnérable
• German: verletzlich
• Italian: vulnerabile
• Japanese: 傷つきやすい, 脆い (もろい, moroi), 弱い (よわい, yowai)
• Korean: 약한
• Russian: уязвимый
• Spanish: vulnerable

Vulnerable may refer to:

• Vulnerability
• Vulnerable species
• Vulnerable (album), by Tricky
• Vulnerable (Marvin Gaye album)
• "Vulnerable" (Roxette song)

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