UNSAFE

dangerous, unsafe

(adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; ā€œa dangerous criminalā€; ā€œa dangerous bridgeā€; ā€œunemployment reached dangerous proportionsā€

insecure, unsafe

(adjective) lacking in security or safety; ā€œhis fortune was increasingly insecureā€; ā€œan insecure futureā€

insecure, unsafe

(adjective) not safe from attack

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

unsafe (comparative more unsafe, superlative most unsafe)

Not safe (various senses); dangerous.

Synonyms

• (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsteady, unstable, wobbly

Anagrams

• faunes, fausen

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ā€˜the father of the brideā€™ instead of ā€˜the brideā€™s fatherā€™


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĆ­a Municipal de ChinchinĆ” (Colombia) at Parque de BolĆ­var, ChinchinĆ”, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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