Word Meanings - INSECURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: INSECURE
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSECURE)
- Precarious
- Hazardous
- peril
- ous
- uncertain
- riskful
- unassured
- insecure
- dubious
- doubtful
- Slippery
- Smooth
- glassy
- lubricated
- perilous
- unsafe
- unstable
- shifty
- elusive
- shuffling
- unprincipled
- deceptive
- evasive
- untrustworthy
Related words: (words related to INSECURE)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - PERILOUS
1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer. - DUBIOUSNESS
State of being dubious. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - PERILLA
A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage. - UNASSURED
1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods. - SMOOTH
1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16. - DOUBTFULLY
In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - ELUSIVE
Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - SHUFFLE
1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange. - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - DUBIOUSLY
In a dubious manner. - SMOOTH-SPOKEN
Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued. - SMOOTHER
One who, or that which, smooths. - DOUBTFULNESS
1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon. - SMOOTHING
fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work. - SHUFFLEBOARD
See SHOVELBOARD - SLIPPERILY
In a slippery manner. - DELUSIVE
Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n. - EMPERIL
To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser. - PRELUSIVE
Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow. "Prelusive drops." Thomson. -- Pre*lu"sive*ly, adv.