Insecure

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not sure or certain; doubtful: unemployed and facing an insecure future.
  • adj. Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe: A shortage of military police made the air base insecure.
  • adj. Not firm or fixed; unsteady: an insecure foothold.
  • adj. Lacking stability; troubled: an insecure relationship.
  • adj. Lacking self-confidence; plagued by anxiety: had always felt insecure at parties.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not secure.
  • adj. Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
  • adj. Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not secure, firm, or safe; liable to give way; unsafe.
  • Not fully assured; not free from apprehension, fear, uncertainty, or doubt; uncertain.
  • To make insecure; imperil.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking self-confidence or assurance
  • adj. not safe from attack
  • adj. not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way
  • adj. lacking in security or safety
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    Form
    insecurity   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    distrustful    suspicious    unsafe    unstable    uncertain   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    vulnerable    precarious    unstable    unsettle    uncertain    unsatisfactory    unsure    unreliable    unsafe    hazardous