What does assailable mean?
Assailable means Able to be assailed or attacked..
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/əˈseɪləbl̩/ · adjective
Able to be assailed or attacked..
1791, Hannah Brand, Huniades, or, The siege of Belgrave, Act IV, Scene 3, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, 1798, p. 82, Plant the ordnance ’gainst the postern, / North of the Eastern tower; for there I deem / The wall is most assailable.
There’s comfort yet; they [Banquo and Fleance] are assailable; / Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown / His cloister’d flight […] there shall be done / A deed of dreadful note.
Indeed, he lived among a generation of sinners, whose consciences were not assailable by smooth circumlocutions, and whose vices required the scourge and the hot iron.
All that most maddens and torments ; all that stirs up the lees of things ; all truth with malice in it ; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain ; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought ; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
What is assailable is that in the process of achieving that goal [equality], you level everybody down.
Use assailable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Assailable means Able to be assailed or attacked..
Common synonyms include exposed, vulnerable, pregnable, susceptible.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1791, Hannah Brand, Huniades, or, The siege of Belgrave, Act IV, Scene 3, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, 1798, p. 82, Plant the ordnance ’gainst the postern, / North of the Eastern tower; for there I deem / The wall is most assailable.
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