insecure

/ɪnsəˈkjʊə(ɹ)/US/ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/

insecure adjective: not secure.

Adjective

insecure (comparative more insecure, superlative most insecure)

Not secure.
- It was, as Carrados explained, entirely his own preposterous fault. Nothing but curiosity about the size of the room had impelled him to touch the walls, and the picture, having a weak cord or an insecure nail ... had it not brought something else down in its fall?1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
- The Yung-li ruler, finding Chao-ch’ing insecure, fled to Wu-chou (梧州), Kuangsi province, and then to Kuei-lin, vigorously pursued by the Manchu army.1982, Albert Chan, “After the Fall of Peking”, in The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 371
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.
- Imagine being so insecure that you make it against the law for folks to dislike you.
Synonyms:

lost

insecure meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

insecure in Hindi

not secure: असुरक्षित asurakṣit
not comfortable in certain situations: असुरक्षित asurakṣit

insecure in Tamil

பாதுகாப்பற்ற, காப்பில்லாத

insecure in Marathi

असुरक्षित

insecure in Urdu

بےآڑ, بےامن, ڈانواں ڈول, غیرمحفوظ, کمزور

More languagesFewer languages

insecure in Bengali: অনিরাপদ, নিরাপত্তাহীন, অনিশ্চিত
insecure in Malayalam: അരക്ഷിതബോധമുള്ള, ആത്മവിശ്വാസമില്ലാത്ത, ആത്മവിശ്വാക്കുറവുള്ള, ഉറപ്പില്ലാത്ത
insecure in Punjabi: ਅਸੁਰੱਖਿਅਤ
insecure in Odia: ଅସୁରକ୍ଷିତ
insecure in Indonesian: rendah diri, minder

Examples of insecure in a sentence

Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
When you're knee-deep in these insecure feelings, it can be hard to see clearly.2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 191:

All 19 example sentences with insecure

Synonyms of insecure

lost

Antonyms

Forms of insecure

comparative	more insecure
superlative	most insecure

Origin of insecure

From in- + secure, or from Medieval Latin insēcūrus, itself from in- (“in-, un-, non-”) + sēcūrus (“safe, certain”). Piecewise doublet of unsecure and unsure.

Words formed from insecure

Words that rhyme with insecure

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Questions about insecure

What does insecure mean?: Insecure means not secure.
What is insecure in Hindi?: Insecure in Hindi is असुरक्षित (asurakṣit). See Insecure meaning in Hindi.
How do you use insecure in a sentence?: Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
What part of speech is insecure?: Insecure is an adjective.
How do you pronounce insecure?: Insecure is pronounced /ɪnsəˈkjʊə(ɹ)/ (UK).

Words near insecure in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: insecure (page history and authors); insecure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insecure (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); insecure (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Insecure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insecure (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); insecure (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); insecure (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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