assailable
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7.7
- adjective
- /əˈseɪləbəl/
:
vulnerable
- He felt he understood the problem's point of weakness, and although it might require months of struggle, Niklas knew the problem was assailable.
Examples
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The politician's speech was full of errors, making his arguments easily assailable.
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A 30% frontrunner is a nominal frontrunner who is very assailable, as Giuliani was.
Blog text (24) -
"Being assailable is the point and not the problem.
Academic text (2000) -
The scary part is that being vulnerable means being "assailable," as the dictionary puts it.
Academic text (1993) -
In this sense, all citizens of modernity are as exposed and assailable as the Jews.
Academic text (1999) -
They are assailable.
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He is a nominal frontrunner at this point; however, he is far from assailable.
Blog text (24) -
His forehand, always an assailable shot, couldn't consistently keep him in rallies.
Blog text (5) -
The Senate races of 2014 look like 12 ultra-safe Senate seats for the GOP, with 20 Dem seats, many of which are assailable.
Blog text (22) -
W.B.'s anti-Darwinianism, his aesthetic idealism, and his intellectual individualism may be understood, at least to a certain extent, as a strategy of distinctions in defense of the exposed and assailable position that he had come to occupy in British society.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
3
6.0
Not protected from attack or criticism
1
7.4
Too weak to be protected from attack or criticism
1
5.8
Not well protected from others who want to hurt it
Antonyms
How Vulnerable
- US
77
3.5
1
7.7
581
4.0
1
3.4
1
2.0
∞
1.0
- Specialized
31
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Assailable comes from the word assail, which means 'to attack' and is the same root as assault. So, if something is assailable it can be attacked or criticized because it is not well protected.