vulnerable

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vulnerable/ˈvʌlnərəbl/

▶adjective

• 1 exposed to the risk of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

• 2 Bridge (of a partnership) liable to higher penalties, either by convention or through having won one game towards a rubber.

– derivatives
vulnerability noun (pl. vulnerabilities),
vulnerableness noun,
vulnerably adverb.

– origin C17: from late L. vulnerabilis, from L. vulnerare ‘to wound’.