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assailable
| Main Entry: |
assailable
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to attack |
| Synonyms: | conquerable, defenseless, exposed, in danger, undefendable, vulnerable, weak |
| Antonyms: | guarded, protected, safe, secure |
| Main Entry: | liable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open, likely |
| Synonyms: | apt, assailable, attackable, beatable, conquerable, disposed, exposed, given, in danger, inclined, penetrable, prone, sensitive, subject, susceptible, tending, verisimilar, vincible, vulnerable |
| Notes: | to be accountable is to be liable to being called to account or answerable; liable means legally obligated or responsible; and responsible is liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust apt is for general probabilities, likely is for specific probabilities; liable and prone indicate a probability arising as a regrettable consequence use likely if you mean 'probable, expected'; use liable if you mean 'bound by law or obligation' |
| Antonyms: | immune, unlikely |
| Main Entry: | vulnerable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to attack |
| Synonyms: | accessible, assailable, defenseless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open |
| Antonyms: | closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure |
| Main Entry: | weak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exposed, vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, assailable, defenseless, helpless, indefensible, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, untenable, wide-open, woundable |
| Antonyms: | guarded, protected, safe, secure |
| Main Entry: | undefended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unprotected |
| Synonyms: | assailable, defenseless, endangered, exposed, undefendable, unguarded, vulnerable |
| Antonyms: | defended, guarded, protected, safe, secure |
| Main Entry: | attackable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | assailable, defenseless, exposed, insecure, pregnable, prone, susceptible, unguarded, unprotected, weak |
| Main Entry: | pregnable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, assailable, attackable, defenseless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, vincible, weak, wide open |
| Main Entry: | susceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liable |
| Synonyms: | apt, assailable, attackable, beatable, conquerable, disposed, exposed, given, in danger, inclined, open, penetrable, prone, sensitive, subject, susceptible, tending, verisimilar, vincible, vulnerable |
| Main Entry: | vincible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, assailable, attackable, defenseless, exposed, liable, naked, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, pregnable, ready, sensitive, sitting duck, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, weak, wide open |
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