Vulnerable vs. Humble — What's the Difference?

Susceptible to physical harm or damage

Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.

Susceptible to emotional injury, especially in being easily hurt

Showing deferential or submissive respect

Susceptible to attack

Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly

Open to censure or criticism; assailable

To cause to feel humble

Susceptible to loss or poor performance

To cause to have a lower condition or status; abase.

(Games) In a position to receive greater penalties or bonuses in a hand of bridge. In a rubber, used of the pair of players who score 100 points toward game.

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

Open to disclosing one's inner thoughts and feelings, acting in spite of one's instinct to self-preservation.

(ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of

(computing) More likely to be exposed to malicious programs or viruses.

To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.

To hum.

Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation.

(transitive) hummel.

Susceptible to attack;

An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

Susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation;

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

Capable of being wounded or hurt;

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

Susceptible to physical or emotional injury;

Hornless. See Hummel.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; - often used rexlexively.

Cause to be unpretentious;

Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

Low or inferior in station or quality;

Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;

Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);