Insecure

Definition: Insecure

Insecure

Adjective

1. Not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure".

2. Lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future".

3. Lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental.

4. Not safe from attack.

5. Not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "insecure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Synonyms: Insecure

Transientness

Temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent.

Crosswords: Insecure

Angry, insecure, confused (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Neurotic, paranoid, totally inadequate, completely insecure. It's a pleasure (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

My insecure conditions (Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me); performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

If your feeling insecure (Send It On; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Doesn't matter if you're feeling insecure (Doesn't Really Matter; performing artist: Janet)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Insecure Workforce (reference)

• The Missing Piece: Our Search for Security in an Insecure World (reference)

• Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World (reference)

• Drive Without Fear: The Insecure Driver's Guide to Independence and Anxiety-Free Driving (reference)

• Help Me! I'm Insecure (Help Me Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Some people with Parkinson's disease become fearful and insecure. (references)

Economic History

Togo

During the next several years, the Grunitzky government's power became insecure. (references)

Angola

The prospect is for continued low-level guerrilla warfare that will keep much of the country insecure. (references)

Ethiopia

The major Somali regular units were forced out of the Ogaden in March 1978. Twenty years later, the Somali region of Ethiopia remains under-developed and insecure. (references)

Political Economy

HONDURAS

Overall growth in foreign investment is hampered by a politicized judiciary subject to influence, a deficient education system, insecure property titles, non-transparent bidding procedures, cumbersome bureaucratic requirements, and generally perceived lack of private sector confidence in the government and the economy. (references)

Women

South Africa

The law also protects persons who have insecure and informal rights and interests in land; many women are in this category. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i pasiguruar (uncovered, uninsured), i pasigurt (chancy, crazy, Dickey, dicky, disputable, doubtful, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, precarious, questionable, touch and go, tricksy, trustless, truthless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متزعزع (precarious, rickety, shaky, slippery, unstable, unsteady, wonky), ‏معرض للخطر (exposed, risky), ‏غير مستقر (inconstant, infirm, labile, migrant, skittish, tottering, uneasy, unsettled, unstable, unsteady), ‏غير واثق, ‏غير آمن. (various references)

Bulgarian 

рискован (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, hazardous, parlous, perilous, precarious, queasy, risky, speculative, sporting, touch and go, unsound, venturesome), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), нестабилен (crank, dicky, doddery, groggy, tottery, uncertain, unsound, unstable, unsteady, wonky), неустойчив (infirm, labile, non-persistent, rickety, top heavy, transient, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, weak), неуверен (diffident, shaky, unassertive, unassured, uncertain, uncool, wonky), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky). (various references)

Chinese 

不安全 (unsafe). (various references)

Czech

vratký (groggy, halting, loose, rickety, specious, top heavy, unstable, unsteady), nejistý (afloat, chancy, cloudy, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fluid, halting, jumpy, precarious, shaky, suspensive, tenuous, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsure), nedùvìryhodný (untrustworthy). (various references)

Farsi 

متزلزل (Giddy, Ramshackle, Seismic, Shaky, Unstable), نامعین (Indefinite, Indeterminate, Unlimited), ناامن , غیرمحفوظ, غیرمطملن , غیرقطعی (Indecisive, Indefinite), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tardy, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), بی اعتبار (Bad), بدون ایمنی . (various references)

Finnish

epävarma (doubtful, not sure, uncertain, unsteady). (various references)

French

inquiet (in a stew), peu sûr, exposé au danger, branlant, anxieux. (various references)

German

unsicher (chancy, dangerous, doubtful, dubious, halting, haltingly, hazardous, insecurely, instable, jumpy, precarious, precariously, shaky, uncertain, uncertainly, uneasily, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsafely, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unstably, unsteady, unsure, wild). (various references)

Greek 

επισφαλήσ (shaky, unsafe, unsound), ανασφαλήσ, ανασφαλής. (various references)

Hebrew 

לא בטוח (precarious, touch and go, uncertain), חסר בטחון, בלתי מסוכן (unchancy). (various references)

Hungarian

veszélyes (baleful, dangerous, fraught with danger, have teeth in it, hazardous, malignant, nasty, parlous, perilous, risky, sticky, unsafe), nem biztos (it does not necessarily follow that), bizonytalan (choppy, cranky, dicey, dim, dubious, elusive, equivocal, faint, faltering, fickle, have cold feet, hazy, hesitating, indefinite, indeterminate, irresolute, nondescript, obscure, pennky, precarious, questionable, sandy, scratchy, shaky, speculative, suspensive, to be in the air, to hang in the air, to hang in the balance, transcendental, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, unsure, vague, woozy). (various references)

Indonesian

gelisah (anxious, uneasy, unrestful). (various references)

Italian

malsicuro (aleatory, uncertain, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unstably, unsteady, unsure). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

物�' (dangerous, disturbed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶっそう (Buddhist funeral, Buddhist priest, dangerous, disturbed), け�"の�" (dangerous, risky). (various references)

Korean 

불안한 (uneasy). (various references)

Manx

neuhickyr (apocryphal, chancy, debatable, fluky, indefinite, infirm, loose, precarious, uncertain), anshickyr (loose, wavering). (various references)

Norwegian

usikker (faltering). (various references)

Pig Latin

insecureay.(various references)

Portuguese

inseguro (brittle, jumpy, shaky, unreliable, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, unsure), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, floating, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, touch-and-go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsure), pouco sólido (flimsy, unsound, unsure), pouco firme (incompact, infirm, niddle-noddle, rattletrap, shaky, shifting, tottering, tottery, uncertain, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, weak-kneed, wobbly, wonky), perigoso (adventure, adventurous, breakneck, chanceful, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, hot, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, touch and go, touch-and-go, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, venturesome). (various references)

Romanian

primejdios (breakneck, dangerous, dangerously, hazardous, perilous, perilously, perniciously, pestiferous), nesigur (chancy, conjectural, doubtful, dubious, erratic, fitful, hesitating, in doubt, inconstant, indecisive, irresolutely, rocky, ticklish, uncertain, unsafe), şubred (delicate, disorderly, feeble, flimsy, frail, ramshackle, rocky, shaky, unstable, weak). (various references)

Russian 

небезопасный (unchancy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nesiguran (dickey, dicky, diffident, dotty, doubtful, faltering, precarious, shaky, uncertain, uneasy, unsafe, unsound, unsure, waggly, wildcat, wonky). (various references)

Spanish

inseguro (diffident, doubtful, doubting, firmless, loose, self conscious, shaky, uncertain, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy). (various references)

Swedish

osäker (doubtful, fluid, iffy, precarious, shaky, touch and go, uncertain, unsafe, unsettled, unsure, vague). (various references)

Thai

ไม่ปลอ�"� ัย. (various references)

Turkish

güvensiz (distrustful, incredulous, jealous, mistrustful, not confident, unsecured), güvenilmez (beyond belief, discredited, elusive, elusory, faithless, irresponsible, precarious, shifty, slippery, suspicious, treacherous, uncertain, unfaithful, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, untrustable, untrustworthy, whacky), emniyetsiz (unsafe, unsure). (various references)

Turkmen 

mьсkьr (self-doubting), aljyraссy (uncertain). (various references)

Ukrainian

ненадійний (chancy, faithless, fallible, incalculable, precarious, questionable, ramshackle, shifty, tickle, treacherous, trustless, truthless, unassured, unreliable, unsafe, unsure, untrustworthy, wacky, whacky), небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, nasty, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, virulent, wicked). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không an to� n không vững chắc, bấp bênh (aleatory, precarious). (various references)

Welsh

anniogel (unsafe). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "insecure": insecurely, insecureness, insecurenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Insecure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alsecure, insacure, Inscr, Inscru, inscure, insecuriy, insicure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sinecure.

-1 letter: censure, sincere.

-2 letters: censer, cereus, cerise, ceruse, cruise, curies, ensure, enures, incurs, incuse, insure, inures, nereis, nieces, recuse, rescue, rusine, screen, secern, secure, seiner, serein, serine, urines, ursine.

-3 letters: cense, ceres, cines, cires, cries, cruse, cures, curie, curns, curse, ecrus, ensue, enure, ernes, incur, incus, inure, nicer, niece, nurse, reins, resin, reuse, rices.

+1 letter: ceintures, centuries, cinereous, enuretics, esurience, licensure, reinduces, sinecures, urgencies.

+2 letters: centauries, currencies, epicureans, esuriences, insecurely, insurgence, licensures, numeracies, pruriences, putrescine, quercetins, quickeners, resecuring, scrutineer, turgencies, virulences.

+3 letters: auctioneers, centrifuges, ceremonious, curlinesses, cursiveness, disencumber, fluorescein, frequencies, imprudences, incurrences, insurgences, intercourse, multiscreen, persecuting, persecution, pruriencies, putrescines, recusancies, reinsurance, relicensure, renunciates, scrutineers, superceding, superinduce, superinfect, underprices, unexercised, virulencies.