Synonyms for safety
ˈseɪf tisafe·ty

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1. safetynoun

   Antonyms:
   danger

2. safetynoun

   If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.

   Antonyms:
   danger

3. safetynoun

   Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.

   Antonyms:
   danger

4. safetynoun

   He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.

   Antonyms:
   danger

5. safetynoun

   The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.

   Antonyms:
   danger

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. safety

   Synonyms:
   defense, immunity, protection, safeguard, security, shelter

   Antonyms:
   danger, hazard, insecurity, jeopardy, peril, risk

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. safetynoun

   the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions

   "insure the safety of the children"; "the reciprocal of safety is risk"

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, condom, safe, guard, refuge, rubber, base hit, safety device

   Antonyms:
   danger

2. safety, refugenoun

   a safe place

   "He ran to safety"

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, condom, sanctuary, safe, resort, guard, asylum, recourse, refuge, rubber, base hit, safety device

   Antonyms:
   danger

3. guard, safety, safety devicenoun

   a device designed to prevent injury or accidents

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, sentry go, condom, guard duty, precaution, safe, guard, safeguard, sentry duty, refuge, rubber, base hit, safety device

   Antonyms:
   danger

4. base hit, safetynoun

   (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, condom, safe, guard, refuge, rubber, base hit, safety device

   Antonyms:
   danger

5. condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylacticnoun

   contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse

   Synonyms:
   condom, caoutchouc, base hit, preventive, safe, guard, arctic, safety device, rubber, refuge, pencil eraser, golosh, preventative, rubber eraser, gumshoe, synthetic rubber, galosh, gum elastic, prophylactic, natural rubber

   Antonyms:
   danger

6. safetynoun

   a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, condom, safe, guard, refuge, rubber, base hit, safety device

   Antonyms:
   danger

Matched Categories

1. • American Football
   • Area
   • Baseball
   • Condition
   • Contraceptive
   • Device
   • Hit
   • Score

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. common welfare

   Submitted by anonymous on May 10, 2020  

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1. safetynoun

   Synonyms:
   security

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. safetynoun

   Synonyms:
   security, custody, immunity, exemption

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "safety":

   security, safe, certainty, sécurité, sûreté, secure, integrity, protection, salama, harmlessness, salamah, wholesomeness

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How to use safety in a sentence?

1. Benjamin Franklin:

   They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

2. Roger Babson:

   The safety of our sons and daughters as they go out on the streets this very night is due to the influence of the preachers rather than to the police men and lawmakers. The safety of our nation, including all groups, depends on Christian education.

3. Tammy Malphurs:

   Volusia County Beach Safety's not Volusia County Beach Safety, but Volusia County Beach Safety's definitely Volusia County Beach Safety.

4. John Adams:

   Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

5. Facebook Inc:

   Many people have rightfully asked why we turned on Safety Check for Paris but not for bombings in Beirut and other places, until yesterday, our policy was only to activate Safety Check for natural disasters. We just changed this and now plan to activate Safety Check for more human disasters going forward as well.