What is another word for unsafe?
Synonyms for unsafe
un·safe
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Princeton's WordNet
insecure, unsafeadjective
lacking in security or safety
"his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"
Antonyms:
invulnerabledangerous, unsafeadjective
involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
"a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions"
Synonyms:
serious, insecure, severe, life-threatening, dangerous, grievous, graveAntonyms:
invulnerableinsecure, unsafeadjective
not safe from attack
Antonyms:
invulnerable
Editors Contribution
in the firing line
Submitted by acronimous on January 11, 2018
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unsafe":
insecure, dangerous, hazardous, insecurity, uncertain, non-secure, precarious, nonsecure, unsanitary, unsure, unhealthy, risky, safe, unsecure, unreliable, unsecured
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1286 | safe | |
#2107 | serious | |
#3964 | severe | |
#4178 | dangerous | |
#5700 | hazardous | |
#8065 | grave | |
#10497 | unsecured | |
#11666 | uncertain | |
#13349 | unsure | |
#15665 | risky | |
#16845 | unsafe | |
#20069 | insecure | |
#21863 | unreliable | |
#23132 | insecurity | |
#23834 | unhealthy | |
#37328 | precarious | |
#40529 | grievous | |
#64604 | unsecure | |
#93328 | unsanitary | |
#277897 | nonsecure |
How to use unsafe in a sentence?
My nani, my family, and our families should not feel unsafe at work, at their place of worship, or anywhere. Enough is enough — our community has been through enough trauma.
To this day, this is a nightmare for me, i feel totally unsafe. I'll live with that for the rest of my life.
We must help educate our patients not only in the clinic setting, but also by working with patient advocacy groups such as the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the ALS Association, we all want to end the plight of our patients, and the challenges brought about by stem cell tourism are an opportunity for medical societies such as the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association to advocate against unsafe and unproven practices, and to end the exploitation of therapeutic hope.
Ultimately, unsafe abortions prove costly because when women start hemorrhaging and have to go to hospital, the cost of getting the abortion and recovering from unsafe abortions is higher.
When East Coast Falcons professionals fly the raptors overhead, gulls know instinctively to leave an unsafe place, professional falconry-based bird abatement is a humane, effective solution for removing nuisance birds.
Translations for unsafe
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- insegurCatalan, Valencian
- unsicherGerman
- peu sûrFrench
- usikkerNorwegian
- onveiligDutch
- usikkerNorwegian Nynorsk
- nesigurRomanian
- 不安全Chinese
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