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self-secure

self-secure is the alternative form of selfsecure.

Meaning of selfsecure

Adjective

selfsecure (comparative more selfsecure, superlative most selfsecure)

  1. Secure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.
    • Friendliness and gentleness also apply to self. Children who learn to be gentle and tolerant with themselves grow up to be less stressed and more relaxed and selfsecure.1993, Linda Eyre, Richard Eyre, Teaching Your Children Values
  2. Secure on one's own; self-reliant; self-sustaining.
    • Haynes's formulation all but conflated middle-class status with moral integrity, as he implied that by their nature, the better classes were more selfsecure.2008, Touré F. Reed, Not Alms But Opportunity

Forms of self-secure

comparativemore self-secure
superlativemost self-secure

Origin of self-secure

From self- + secure.

Questions about self-secure

What is self-secure the alternative form of?
Self-secure is the alternative form of selfsecure.

Words near self-secure in the dictionary

  1. self-scanning
  2. self-scans
  3. self-science
  4. self-sciences
  5. self-sealing
  6. self-secure
  7. self-seed
  8. self-seeded
  9. self-seeding
  10. self-seeds
  11. self-seeker

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