Meaning of INSECURE
| Pronunciation: | | `insi'kyûr
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- [adj] lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability"
- [adj] lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"
- [adj] not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] not safe from attack
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| | Synonyms: | | bad, embattled, high-risk, loose, overanxious, precarious, risky, shaky, speculative, unassured, uncertain, unguaranteed, unsafe, unsecured, unsound, unsure |
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| | Antonyms: | | secure, unafraid, untroubled | | |
| | See Also: | | dangerous, unfixed, unprotected, vulnerable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`se*cure"\, a.
1. Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence;
distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
With sorrow and insecure apprehensions. --Jer.
Taylor.
2. Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe;
unstable; exposed to danger or loss. --Bp. Hurg.
The trade with Egypt was exceedingly insecure and
precarious. --Mickle.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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