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insecure

adj
/ɪnsəˈkjʊə(ɹ)/UK/ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/US

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from sēcūrus
  2. prefixed as insecure — “in + secure”

Definitions

  1. Not secure.

    • 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.

  2. 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.

The neighborhood

  • antonymconfidentantonym(s) of “not comfortable or confident”
  • antonymself-confidentantonym(s) of “not comfortable or confident”

Derived

food-insecure, insecurely, insecureness, insecurity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at insecure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01insecure02confident03forward04situated05money06checks07check08threatened

A definitional loop anchored at insecure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at insecure

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA