What does vulnerable mean?

Definitions for vulnerable
ˈvʌl nər ə bəlvul·ner·a·ble

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. vulnerableadjective

    susceptible to attack

    "a vulnerable bridge"

  2. vulnerableadjective

    susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation

    "vulnerable to bribery"; "an argument vulnerable to refutation"

  3. vulnerableadjective

    capable of being wounded or hurt

    "vulnerable parts of the body"

Wiktionary

  1. vulnerableadjective

    More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

    "You are vulnerable to be bullied by someone at school."

  2. vulnerableadjective

    More likely to be exposed to malicious programs or viruses.

    a vulnerable PC with no antivirus software

  3. Etymology: From vulnerabilis, from vulnero.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vulnerableadjective

    capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body

  2. Vulnerableadjective

    liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation

  3. Etymology: [L. vulnerabilis wounding, injurious, from vulnerare to wound, vulnus a wound; akin to Skr. vraa: cf. F. vulnrable.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Vulnerable

    vul′ne-ra-bl, adj. capable of being wounded: liable to injury.—v.t. Vuln (her.), to wound.—adj. Vulned (her.).—ns. Vulnerabil′ity, Vul′nerableness.—adj. Vul′nerary, pertaining to wounds: useful in healing wounds.—n. anything useful in curing wounds.—adj. Vul′nerose, with many wounds. [L. vulnerabilisvulnerāre, to wound—vulnus, vulneris, a wound.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. vulnerable

    Susceptive of wounds; liable to external injuries; capable of being taken; as, the town is extremely vulnerable in such a quarter. It is also applied to military dispositions; as, the army was vulnerable in the centre, etc. An assemblage of men without arms, or with arms but without discipline, or having discipline and arms, without officers, are vulnerable.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'vulnerable' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3836

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'vulnerable' in Adjectives Frequency: #514

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vulnerable in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vulnerable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of vulnerable in a Sentence

  1. Tom Frieden:

    One of the reasons Covid has killed so many people is there were so many people who were vulnerable to health problems.

  2. Tracey Vitchers:

    What we're concerned about in particular is that the effect of Covid-19 and the shutdowns we've seen with college campuses over the past year, year and a half, are actually going to make the red zone worse this year, we have this situation where we have first-year students coming to campus who we know are traditionally most vulnerable during the red zone, but we also have returning sophomores who might academically be in their second year but are truly in their first-year experience because they did not have a first-year social experience. There's this idea of making up for lost time.

  3. Anu Bourgeois:

    The way( the transition to remote working) happened, instantly, there was no warning, and all of a sudden people were just told,' you're not going back to work tomorrow,' everybody became vulnerable at that point.

  4. Brian Lee:

    We obviously know that depression is a bad thing like any other mental health outcome, it’s less recognized that mental health outcomes affect other people than the people themselves. So for parents or guardians, a vulnerable population would be their children.

  5. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg:

    Weve also let our employees know that even after more of our teams can return, if theres any reason they feel they cant work in our offices -- because they are in a vulnerable population, because with schools and camps canceled they dont have childcare, or anything else -- that they can plan to work from home through at least the summer.

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