adj.
- exposed to the risk of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
- Bridge (of a partnership) liable to higher penalties, either by convention or through having won one game towards a rubber.
Derivative
- vulnerability n.
(pl. vulnerabilities)
. - vulnerableness n.
- vulnerably adv.
Etymology
C17: from late L. vulnerabilis, from L. vulnerare ‘to wound’.
