Assailable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈseɪləbl̩/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Assailable is an adjective meaning Able to be assailed or attacked.
Meaning
Able to be assailed or attacked.
Example Sentences
What is assailable is that in the process of achieving that goal [equality], you level everybody down.
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.
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.
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.
Synonyms for assailable
Depending on context, synonyms include exposed, vulnerable, pregnable, susceptible, open, undefendable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include open, vulnerable, undefendable, vincible, assaultable, oppugnable.
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