assailable

1. 1.

   not defended or capable of being defended

   “an open city”

   “open to attack”

   Synonymsundefendableundefendedopen

   Similarvulnerable

Questions about assailable

What does assailable mean?

assailable means "not defended or capable of being defended".

How many syllables are in assailable?

assailable has 4 syllables: as-sai-la-ble. The stress falls on "sai".

What is another word for assailable?

Close synonyms include undefendable, undefended, open. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is assailable a common word?

assailable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.