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Synonyms for insecure
ˌɪn sɪˈkyʊərin·se·cure

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Wiktionary4.0 / 2 votes

  1. 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 Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, unsteady

    Antonyms:
    actual, assured, certain, firm, immutable, incontestable, infallible, real, settled, stable, steady, strong, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unquestionable

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. insecureadjective

    not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way

    "the hinge is insecure"

    Synonyms:
    unsafe

    Antonyms:
    tight, secure, sure, steady, firm, assured, unafraid, untroubled, invulnerable, fail-safe

  2. insecure, unsafeadjective

    lacking in security or safety

    "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"

    Synonyms:
    unsafe, dangerous

    Antonyms:
    fail-safe, sure, secure, firm, invulnerable, untroubled, unafraid, assured, steady, tight

  3. insecureadjective

    lacking self-confidence or assurance

    "an insecure person lacking mental stability"

    Synonyms:
    unsafe

    Antonyms:
    assured, fail-safe, sure, firm, steady, secure, unafraid, invulnerable, untroubled, tight

  4. insecure, unsafeadjective

    not safe from attack

    Synonyms:
    unsafe, dangerous

    Antonyms:
    secure, assured, invulnerable, fail-safe, firm, steady, tight, sure, unafraid, untroubled

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. in the firing line

    Submitted by acronimous on January 11, 2018  
  2. no 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.

    Submitted by anonymous on January 28, 2023  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. insecureadjective

    Synonyms:
    uncertain, not sure, not confident

  2. insecureadjective

    Synonyms:
    unsafe, unprotected, exposed, dangerous, hazardous, perilous

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. insecureadjective

    Synonyms:
    risky, unsafe, precarious, rickety, unstable, dangerous

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How to use insecure in a sentence?

  1. Mark van Doren:

    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.

  2. Britney Spears:

    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.

  3. Gwen Stefani:

    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.

  4. Kandee Johnson:

    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.

  5. Natalie Smigielski:

    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?


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