| 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: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
Synonyms: |
alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, jeopardous, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, parlous, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
Antonyms: |
careful, guarded, safe, secure, unhazardous, untroubled |
| Main Entry: | dependent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, helpless |
Synonyms: |
abased, clinging, counting on, debased, defenseless, humbled, immature, indigent, inferior, lesser, minor, poor, reliant, relying on, secondary, subordinate, tied to apron strings, under, under thumb, unsustaining, vulnerable |
Antonyms: |
independent, mature, strong, unreliant |
| Main Entry: | exposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in danger |
Synonyms: |
accessible, in peril, laid bare, laid open, left open, liable, menaced, open, prone, sensitive, subject, susceptible, threatened, unguarded, unprotected, vulnerable |
Antonyms: |
guarded, protected, safe, sheltered, shielded |
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
Synonyms: |
brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frangible, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, shatterable, shattery, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wimpy, wishy-washy, wispy |
Antonyms: |
firm, strong, unbreakable |
| Main Entry: | human |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | characteristic of people |
Synonyms: |
animal, anthropoid, anthropological, anthropomorphic, biped, bipedal, civilized, creatural, ethnologic, ethological, fallible, fleshly, forgivable, hominal, hominid, hominine, humanistic, individual, mortal, personal, vulnerable |
| Notes: | a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion |
Antonyms: |
immortal, inhuman, unmanly |
| Main Entry: | impressionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily taught; gullible |
Synonyms: |
affectable, affected, feeling, impressible, influenceable, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, suggestible, susceptible, susceptive, vulnerable, wax-like |
Antonyms: |
insusceptible, obstinate, stubborn, unimpressionable, unresponsive |
| Main Entry: | insecure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, precarious |
Synonyms: |
defenseless, exposed, fluctuant, frail, hazardous, immature, insubstantial, loose, open to attack, perilous, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaky, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unshielded, unsound, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly |
Antonyms: |
guarded, protected, safe, secure, sound |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
immune, unlikely |
| Main Entry: | naked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without covering |
Synonyms: |
au naturel, bald, bare, bare-skinned, bared, barren, defenseless, denuded, disrobed, divested, exposed, helpless, in birthday suit, in dishabille, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, leafless, natural, nude, open, peeled, raw, stark-naked, stripped, threadbare, unclad, unclothed, unconcealed, uncovered, undraped, undressed, unprotected, unveiled, vulnerable, without a stitch |
Antonyms: |
clothed |