"unsafe" | Definition and Related Words

Adjective

Lacking in security or safety (synset 302102035)
"his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"
also:
- unprotected - lacking protection or defense
- dangerous, unsafe - involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
- vulnerable - susceptible to attack
similar to:
- precarious, shaky - not secure; beset with difficulties
- unguaranteed, unsecured - without financial security
same as: insecure
Involving or causing danger or risk;
Liable to hurt or harm (synset 302066198)
"a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions"
also:
- insecure, unsafe - lacking in security or safety
- vulnerable - susceptible to attack
similar to:
- breakneck - moving at very high speed
- chanceful, chancy, dicey, dodgy - of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk
- desperate - (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
- hazardous, risky, wild - involving risk or danger
- insidious - intended to entrap
- mordacious - biting or given to biting
- on the hook - caught in a difficult or dangerous situation
- parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go - fraught with danger
- self-destructive, suicidal - dangerous to yourself or your interests
- treacherous, unreliable - dangerously unstable and unpredictable
same as: dangerous
Not safe from attack (synset 302534602)
similar to: vulnerable - susceptible to attack

same as: insecure