Found 3 hits - Term: insecure, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
insecure \in`secure"\, a.
1. not secure; not confident of safety or permanence;
distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
1913 webster
with sorrow and insecure apprehensions. --jer.
taylor.
1913 webster
2. not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe;
unstable; exposed to danger or loss. --bp. hurg.
1913 webster
the trade with egypt was exceedingly insecure and
precarious. --mickle.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
insecure
adj 1: not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the
hinge is insecure" ant: secure
2: lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly
insecure"; "an insecure future" syn: unsafe ant: secure
3: lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person
lacking mental stability" ant: secure
4: not safe from attack syn: unsafe
5: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much
can't help being risky"; "speculative business
enterprises" syn: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative
see also:
secure unsafe bad risky high-risk speculative
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 moby thesaurus words for "insecure":
afraid, anxious, apprehensive, dangerous, desultory, dickey,
disconcerted, doubtful, dubious, exposed, fearful, flimsy,
fluctuant, frail, hazardous, hesitant, in suspense, infirm,
insubstantial, jumpy, nervous, open, perilous, precarious,
provisional, questioning, rickety, risky, rocky, rootless, shaky,
shifting, shifty, slippery, temporary, tentative, ticklish,
tottery, treacherous, unassured, uncertain, uncomfortable,
unconfident, undefended, undependable, unfaithworthy, unguarded,
unhealthy, unnerved, unpredictable, unprotected, unreliable,
unsafe, unselfassured, unselfconfident, unselfreliant, unsolid,
unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure,
untrustworthy, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly,
worried
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