What is another word for insecure?
Synonyms for insecure
ˌɪn sɪˈkyʊərin·se·cure
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Wiktionary
insecureadjective
Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations.
He's a nice guy and all, but seems to be rather insecure around other people.
Antonyms:
confident, self-confident
English Synonyms and Antonyms
insecure
Uncertain is applied to things that human knowledge can not certainly determine or that human power can not certainly control; precarious originally meant dependent on the will of another, and now, by extension of meaning, dependent on chance or hazard, with manifest unfavorable possibility verging toward probability; as, one holds office by a precarious tenure, or land by a precarious title; the strong man's hold on life is uncertain, the invalid's is precarious.
Synonyms:
doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hazardous, perilous, precarious, risky, unassured, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteadyAntonyms:
actual, assured, certain, firm, immutable, incontestable, infallible, real, settled, stable, steady, strong, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unquestionable
Princeton's WordNet
insecureadjective
not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way
"the hinge is insecure"
Synonyms:
unsafeAntonyms:
tight, secure, sure, steady, firm, assured, unafraid, untroubled, invulnerable, fail-safeinsecure, unsafeadjective
lacking in security or safety
"his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"
Antonyms:
fail-safe, sure, secure, firm, invulnerable, untroubled, unafraid, assured, steady, tightinsecureadjective
lacking self-confidence or assurance
"an insecure person lacking mental stability"
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unsafeAntonyms:
assured, fail-safe, sure, firm, steady, secure, unafraid, invulnerable, untroubled, tightinsecure, unsafeadjective
not safe from attack
Antonyms:
secure, assured, invulnerable, fail-safe, firm, steady, tight, sure, unafraid, untroubled
Editors Contribution
in the firing line
Submitted by acronimous on January 11, 2018no confidenceadjective
having no confidence is when you don’t feel sure about something, someone, or yourself’s ideas, thoughts, actions, or words.
the girl had no confidence when she didn’t stand up to the bully.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
insecureadjective
Synonyms:
uncertain, not sure, not confidentinsecureadjective
Synonyms:
unsafe, unprotected, exposed, dangerous, hazardous, perilous
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "insecure":
unsafe, precarious, uncertain, insecurity, unsure, unstable, fragile, uncertainty
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#4178 | dangerous | |
#5700 | hazardous | |
#7863 | uncertainty | |
#10488 | unstable | |
#11666 | uncertain | |
#13349 | unsure | |
#14236 | fragile | |
#15665 | risky | |
#16845 | unsafe | |
#20066 | doubtful | |
#20069 | insecure | |
#23071 | dubious | |
#23132 | insecurity | |
#37328 | precarious | |
#38566 | perilous | |
#40835 | unsettled | |
#49479 | unsteady | |
#70807 | equivocal |
How to use insecure in a sentence?
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
Honestly my family embarrassed me and hurt me deeply …. so tooting my own horn and seeing my past accomplishments reflecting back at me actually helped, to the outside world it must seem like I'm extremely insecure and if people really knew what I went through, I think they would understand COMPLETELY where I'm coming from.
What happened was, the story is, that he had written the song and sent it to me on my phone. I was scared to listen to it, i was like ,‘What if I don’t like it?’ And I listened to it and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I love this.’ He said, ‘Write the rest of it.’ It was a time when I was really insecure about writing.
I try to always encourage everyone that our most important beauty is felt in a dark room where no one sees beauty, but feels it, but I also know that many people feel insecure about certain things.
I had all of this money, and all of a sudden it was almost gone, i was like, 'Wow.' It made me feel so insecure. What if another emergency happened on top of that?
Translations for insecure
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- insegurCatalan, Valencian
- nejistýCzech
- utryg, usikkerDanish
- unsicherGerman
- ανασφαλήςGreek
- inseguroSpanish
- epävarma, turvaton, epäluotettavaFinnish
- inquiet, inconfortableFrench
- anksyeuHaitian Creole
- insicuro, malsicuroItalian
- 安全でありませんJapanese
- tītengi, pānekenekeMāori
- niebezpieczny, niepewnyPolish
- небезопа́сный, неуве́ренный, ненадёжный, опа́сныйRussian
- nesiguranSerbo-Croatian
- emniyetsiz, güvensiz, tehlikedeTurkish
- небезпечнийUkrainian
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