unsafe

Speech parts

1. unsafe - Adjective

2. unsafe - Verb

3. unsafe - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm

lacking in security or safety

not safe from attack

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dangerous unstable insecure precarious shaky wobbly rickety unsteady dickey rocky wildcat chancy slippy vulnerable uncertain
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Antonyms

white good certain strong medical stable
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Phrases with the word

unsafe area unsafe location unsafe place unsafe zone unsafe sex fear of unsafe environment

Anagrams

fausen Fenusa

Examples

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. W. Somerset Maugham

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. Sophocles

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. Erik Erikson

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him. Florence King

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. Robert Collier

If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timber will be unsafe. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

unsadistically unsadly unsadness unsafe area unsafe location unsafe place