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vulnerable - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | vulnerable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to attack |
| Synonyms: | accessible, assailable, defenseless, exposed, liable, naked, out on a limb*, ready, sensitive, sitting duck*, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned*, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, weak, on the line, on the spot, wide open |
| Antonyms: | closed, guarded, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, 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, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | breakable, weak |
| Synonyms: | brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, feeble, fishy, flimsy, fragile, infirm, insubstantial, puny, sad, sickly, slender, slight, slim, tender, tenuous, thin, unsound, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wishy-washy*, wispy, fracturable, frangible, shatterable, shattery, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | firm, strong, unbreakable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | human |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | characteristic of people |
| Synonyms: | animal, anthropoid, civilized, fallible, fleshly, forgivable, individual, mortal, personal, vulnerable, anthropological, anthropomorphic, biped, bipedal, creatural, ethnologic, ethological, hominal, hominid, hominine, humanistic |
| 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: | affected, feeling, impressible, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic*, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, vulnerable, affectable, influenceable, sensile, suggestible, susceptive, wax-like |
| Antonyms: | obstinate, stubborn, unresponsive, insusceptible, unimpressionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perilous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, delicate, dicey*, dynamite, exposed, hairy*, hazardous, insecure, loaded, precarious, risky, rugged, shaky, threatening, ticklish, touchy, treacherous, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable, wicked*, Russian roulette, on thin ice, playing with fire, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | safe, secure, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | powerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak; unable |
| Synonyms: | blank, chicken*, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, disabled, feeble, frail, gutless, helpless, impotent, incapable, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inert, infirm, paralyzed, passive, prostrate, subject, supine, tied, unarmed, unfit, vulnerable, wimp*, wishy-washy*, disenfranchised, etiolated, out of gas |
| Antonyms: | able, dominant, potent, powerful, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subject |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the mercy of; answerable |
| Synonyms: | accountable, apt, at one's feet, bound by, captive, collateral, conditional, contingent, controlled, dependent, directed, disposed, enslaved, exposed, governed, in danger of, inferior, liable, likely, obedient, open, prone, provisional, ruled, satellite, secondary, sensitive, servile, slavish, sub*, subaltern, subjugated, submissive, subordinate, subservient, substract, susceptible, tentative, tributary, under, vulnerable |
| Antonyms: | master |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | susceptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exposed, naive |
| Synonyms: | affected, disposed, easy, fall for, given, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, inclined, influenced, liable, mark, movable, obnoxious, open, out on a limb*, persuadable, predisposed, prone, pushover, ready, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sitting duck*, soft, subject, sucker, swallow, tender, touched, vulnerable, aroused, be taken in, easily moved, nonresistant, roused, sensile, stirred, suggestible, susceptive, swayed, tumble for, wide open |
| Antonyms: | resistant, resisting, unsusceptible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thin-skinned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily hurt |
| Synonyms: | delicate, sensitive, soft, touchy, vulnerable, easily hurt, easily offended, hypersensitive, oversensitive, ultrasensitive |
| Main Entry: | unarmed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disarmed |
| Synonyms: | exposed, helpless, indefensible, naked*, open, powerless, unguarded, unprotected, vulnerable, hands tied, like a sitting duck, unshielded, weaponless, wide open |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncovered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exposed |
| Synonyms: | bare, caught, discovered, naked, nude, shown, stripped, unconcealed, unprotected, visible, vulnerable, weakened, brought to light, disclosed, divulged, dug up, found out, laid bare, made public, on display, on view, revealed, solved, unmasked, unveiled |
| Main Entry: | unguarded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtless; unwary |
| Synonyms: | accessible, artless, candid, careless, casual, direct, foolhardy, frank, headlong, heedless, honest, impolitic, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, indiscreet, ingenuous, naive, offhand, rash, spontaneous, straightforward, unconscious, unpremeditated, unthinking, unwise, vulnerable, weak, ill-considered, unalert, uncircumspect, undiplomatic, unreflective, unvigilant, unwatchful |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | unprepared |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not ready |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib*, caught off guard, ill-considered, impromptu, improvised, napping, not prepared, off the cuff*, off the top of one's head, offhand, played by ear, spontaneous, surprised, taken off guard, unaware, unexpected, unplanned, unready, unrehearsed, unschooled, unskilled, untrained, vulnerable, winged* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unprotected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defenseless |
| Synonyms: | caught, endangered, exposed, helpless, indefensible, naked*, open, out on a limb*, powerless, unarmed, unguarded, unsafe, vulnerable, weak, in the line of fire, like a sitting duck, pregnable, wide open |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assailable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to attack |
| Synonyms: | defenseless, exposed, vulnerable, weak, conquerable, in danger, undefendable |
| Antonyms: | guarded, protected, safe, secure |
| Main Entry: | at risk |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in danger |
| Synonyms: | endangered, exposed, susceptible, threatened, vulnerable, at hazard, imperiled, in jeopardy, in peril, jeopardized |
| Main Entry: | sitting duck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy target |
| Synonyms: | babe in the woods, pushover, soft touch, toast, vulnerable, dead duck, dead meat, easy pickings, easy victim, lamb, sinecure |
| Main Entry: | threatened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | endangered |
| Synonyms: | exposed, unprotected, unsafe, vulnerable, warned, imperiled, in danger, jeopardized |
| Antonyms: | invulnerable, protected, safe |
| Main Entry: | undefended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unprotected |
| Synonyms: | assailable, defenseless, endangered, exposed, unguarded, vulnerable, undefendable |
| Antonyms: | defended, guarded, protected, safe, secure |
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