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unsecure

unsecure adjective: synonym of insecure.

Adjective

unsecure (comparative more unsecure, superlative most unsecure)

  1. (rare) Synonym of insecure.
    • All great concernments must delays endure;1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
    • Has my Goodnes
      Clemencie, loue, and fauour gratious raysed thee
      From a Condition next to popular labour
      Tooke thee from all the dubitable hazards
      Of Fortune, her most unsecure aduentures
      And grafted thee into a Branch of honor […]1624, Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chesse
    Synonyms:
    insecure

Verb

unsecure (third-person singular simple present unsecures, present participle unsecuring, simple past and past participle unsecured)

  1. (transitive) To make insecure or less secure.

Examples of unsecure in a sentence

  • […] [the elevator] was in operation when it fell; its fall was due to the settling of the piers and the unsecure foundation of the elevator […]1883, N. Y. Supreme Court, page 43:
  • In this chapter, you examine methods for encrypting data before it is sent across an unsecure network such as the Internet.2004, Stephen Walther, ASP.NET unleashed 2003, page 923:
  • Unsecure networks pose a substantial security risk to your systems or data.2007, Brian Koerner, Windows Vista Security for Dummies, page 223:

Synonyms of unsecure

Forms of unsecure

Adjective
comparativemore unsecure
superlativemost unsecure
Verb
third-person singular presentunsecures
present participleunsecuring
past participleunsecured
pastunsecured

Origin of unsecure

From un- (“not”) + secure (adjective). Piecewise doublet of insecure and unsure, as well as of etymology 2.

From un- (inversive prefix) + secure (verb). Piecewise doublet of insecure and unsure, as well as of etymology 1.

Words formed from unsecure

Questions about unsecure

What does unsecure mean?
Unsecure means synonym of insecure.
How do you use unsecure in a sentence?
[…] [the elevator] was in operation when it fell; its fall was due to the settling of the piers and the unsecure foundation of the elevator […]
What part of speech is unsecure?
Unsecure can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unsecure in the dictionary

  1. unsecularize
  2. unsecularized
  3. unsecularizes
  4. unsecularizing
  5. unsecurable
  6. unsecure
  7. unsecured
  8. unsecured creditor
  9. unsecured creditors
  10. unsecured debt
  11. unsecured debts

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