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Definition of Insecure
1. Adjective. Not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way. "The hinge is insecure"
2. Adjective. Lacking in security or safety. "An insecure future"
Also: Unprotected, Dangerous, Unsafe, Vulnerable
Similar to: Precarious, Shaky, Unguaranteed, Unsecured
Derivative terms: Insecureness, Insecurity
Antonyms: Secure
3. Adjective. Lacking self-confidence or assurance. "An insecure person lacking mental stability"
4. Adjective. Not safe from attack.
Definition of Insecure
1. a. Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
Definition of Insecure
1. Adjective. Not secure. ¹
2. Adjective. Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insecure
1. unsafe [adj] - See also: unsafe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insecure
Literary usage of Insecure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment (1991)
"Improper offering or acceptance of unloaded hazardous materials rail car; usually $
11200.00 due to insecure closures. §173.29. ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"Although defendant controverted the fact that the pulley was In a cracked and
insecure condition, Its evidence on this question was negative and ..."
3. Agricultural Trade and Poverty: Making Policy Analysis Count edited by Jonathan Brooks (2003)
"Yet, some countries classified as food insecure by the cluster analysis are ...
A category of food insecure countries based on quantitative indicators ..."
4. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1856)
"At advising— Hence the property of the defenders was, in respect of the particular
matter in question, in an insecure and insufficient state, ..."
5. Wrongs and Their Remedies: A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Francis Stafford Pipe Wolferstan, James M. Dudley, Edwin Baylies (1876)
"... Ruinous and insecure railway bridges, viaducts and embankments.— Every railway
company in the actual possession and occupation of its line of railway is ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... carious and insecure ; and which encouragement this court would most reluctantly
lend its assistance to administer. For the reasons already given, ..."
7. History of Liberty by Samuel Eliot (1853)
"declared his deposition, was their sentence executed without recourse to the
imperial power.122 So insecure were the principles of organization for which ..."
8. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"... most valuable privileges— whose rights they violate, whose business they
derange, and the value of whose property they render unstable and insecure. ..."
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