Word Meanings - SECURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident. But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes. DRyden. 2. Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense. Macaulay. 3. Confident in opinion; not

Additional info about word: SECURE

1. Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident. But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes. DRyden. 2. Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense. Macaulay. 3. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome. Confidence then bore thee on, secure Either to meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial. Milton. 4. Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from. "Secure from fortune's blows." Dryden. Syn. -- Safe; undisturbed; easy; sure; certain; assured; confident; careless; heedless; inattentive.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SECURE)

• Attain
• Reach
• extend
• master
• arrive at
• compass
• earn
• win
• achieve
• accomplish
• get
• obtain
• acquire
• gain
• secure
• grasp
• Bind
• Fetter
• engage
• tie
• fasten
• lace
• twine
• oblige
• compel
• restrict
• restrain
• Catch
• Take
• seize
• grip
• clutch
• capture
• ensnare
• snatch
• hit
• arrest
• comprehend
• overtake
• apprehend
• Cover Hide
• conceal
• cloak
• screen
• secrete
• protect
• meet
• overspread
• clothe
• shield
• shelter
• cover
• Effectuate
• Produce
• ensure
• stabilitate
• complete
• establish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SECURE)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Liberate
• release
• emancipate
• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue
• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute
• Loosen
• imperil
• endanger
• open

Related words: (words related to SECURE)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• ATTAIN
  atteindre, fr. L. attingere; ad + tangere to touch, reach. See 1. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson. 3. To get
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ENSURER
  See INSURER
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.