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Definition
easily hurt or in need of help; or easily influenced or subject to temptationSpecialized Definitions for vulnerable:
Ecology: species believed likely to move into the endangered category if no action is taken
Bridge (card game): the period after winning one game in a rubber when higher penalties (and bonuses) are scored
- The computers are vulnerable to cyberattacks.
vulnerable to = easily hurt by
- The law is intended to help the most vulnerable refugees.
- The setup is vulnerable to corruption.
- The team's preferred style of defense is vulnerable to good outside shooters.
- Her argument is vulnerable to refutation.
- Feeling too vulnerable on the ground with my lopsided hearing, I scale a tree to wait.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- I wish Cinna had given me a similar outfit, I feel so vulnerable in this flimsy dress.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- She's got us trapped, too, because no one wants to chase her down, not while their own pack sits so vulnerable on the table.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- To hate the boy from District 1, who also appears so vulnerable in death, seems inadequate.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- Apparently, I'm too "vulnerable" for ferocity.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- My skin feels sore and tingling and intensely vulnerable.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- I spend the night half-sitting, half-lying next to Peeta, refreshing the bandage, and trying not to dwell on the fact that by teaming up with him, I've made myself far more vulnerable than when I was alone.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- We beat at them with the stocks of our guns, but there was nothing solid or vulnerable to strike.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Lost World
- He is vulnerable to reason there—always a few grains of common-sense in an ounce of miserliness.Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
- The spider is on its back and fatly vulnerable, struggling to find its pointed feet and scurry back into the air.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- Are the young and brave as vulnerable as the old and slow?Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
- But we learned the value of being vulnerable enough to let others be strong for us, to let others bless us.Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real
- He was angry because Antonio had said what he'd said and then struck him; he was confused because he was newly vulnerable.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- Just when the boat was most vulnerable, a large swell crashed against the hull.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
vulnerable = in need of help
vulnerable to = easily influenced or tempted by
vulnerable to = easily hurt by
vulnerable to = easily hurt by
vulnerable = easy to be hurt
vulnerable = easily influenced
vulnerable to = easily hurt by; or easily influenced or tempted by; or "easily hurt" to
vulnerable to = easily influenced by