Related: alternative, danger,
depend,
secure
Object
users are
vulnerable when they do not
control their
own sources.
Vulnerability is increased with
power, and decreased with
freedom.
Owner
profit is increased by
consumers and
worker
vulnerability.
"'
Vulnerable \Vul"ner*a*ble\, a. [L. vulnerabilis wounding,
injurious, from vulnerare to wound, vulnus a wound; akin to
Skr. vra?a: cf. F. vuln['e]rable.]
1. Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or
external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.
Achilles was vulnerable in his heel; and there will
be wanting a Paris to infix the dart. --Dr. T.
Dwight.
'" -- 1913
Webster
"'
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
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