Word Meanings - INSECURITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt. 2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence. With what insecurity of truth

Additional info about word: INSECURITY

1. The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt. 2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence. With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects . . . unto arbitrary calculations. Sir T. Browne. A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts become objects of speculation. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSECURITY)

• Danger
• Peril
• hazard
• risk
• jeopardy
• insecurity
• venture
• uncertainty
• unsafety

Related words: (words related to INSECURITY)

• 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.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PERILLA
  A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• 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.
• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• VENTURER
  1. One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer. Beau. & Fl. 2. A strumpet; a prostitute. J. Webster .
• HAZARDRY
  1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. Chaucer. 2. Rashness; temerity. Spenser.
• HAZARDER
  1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. Chaucer. 2. One who hazards or ventures.
• HAZARDOUS
  Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton. Syn. -- Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.
• HAZARD
  Holing a ball, whether the object ball or the player's ball . 5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." Shak. Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. --
• JEOPARDY
  Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger. There came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. Luke viii. 23. Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy. Shak. Syn. -- Danger; peril; hazard; risk.
• DANGER
  difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier , F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to
• PERILYMPHATIC
  Pertaining to, or containing, perilymph. Perilymphangial.
• DANGEROUS
  1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• PERIL
  Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers. 2 Cor. xi. 26. Adventure hard With peril great achieved. Milton. At, or On, one's peril, with risk or danger
• VENTURE
  1. An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation. I, in this venture, double gains pursue. Dryden. 2. An event that is not, or can
• INSECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt. 2. The state of feeling insecure; uncertainty; want of confidence. With what insecurity of truth
• PERILYMPH
  The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.
• UNSAFETY
  The quality or state of being in peril; absence of safety; insecurity. Bacon.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• AVENTURE
  A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire. (more info) 1. Accident; chance; adventure. Chaucer.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• SLIPPERILY
  In a slippery manner.
• DISADVENTURE
  Misfortune; mishap. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COADVENTURER
  A fellow adventurer.
• COADVENTURE
  An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
• ADVENTURESOME
  Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• ADVENTUREFUL
  Given to adventure.
• EMPERIL
  To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser.
• PERADVENTURE
  By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. "If peradventure he speak against me." Shak. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii.
• MISADVENTURED
  Unfortunate.
• ENDANGERMENT
  Hazard; peril. Milton.