secure

adj

/sɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)//səˈkjʊɹ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

borrowed from sēcūrus

Definitions

Free from attack or danger
Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
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1. 4
  Free from anxiety or doubt
  Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
  - But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
2. Firm and not likely to fail
  Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
3. Free from the risk of financial loss
  Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
4. 7
  Confident in opinion
  Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
  - secure of a welcome
  - Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
5. 8
  Overconfident
  Overconfident; incautious; careless.
  - They were secure where they ought to have been wary, and timorous where they might well have been secure.
6. 9
  Certain to be achieved or gained
  Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
  - Just when victory seemed secure, they let it slip from their grasp.
7. 10
  To make safe
  To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  - I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
8. 11
  To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving
  To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
  - to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
  - It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
9. 12
  To fix in place
  To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
  - to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
  - All springs for the engine and tender are of the laminated type with plates of carbon steel, which are secured in the spring buckles by a vertical centre rivet.
10. 13
  To get possession of
  To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
  - to secure an estate
  - [Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress.
11. To plight or pledge.

The neighborhood

antonyminsecure
neighborsecurity
neighborcomputationally secure
neighborfail-secure
neighborsecure by design
neighborselfsecure

Derived

biosecure, cybersecure, food-secure, nonsecure, securance, securely, secureness, securonomics, self-secure, supersecure, ultrasecure, oversecure, unsecure, countersecure, resecure, securability, securable, secure arms, securement

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at secure. 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.

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

7 hops · closes at secure

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