Meaning

9 senses
  1. Free from attack or danger; protected.

    sicher, geschützt, beschützt

    free from danger or risk

  2. Free from the danger of theft; safe.

    sicher, geschützt

    financially safe

  3. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.

    sicher

  4. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.

    sicher

    free from fear or doubt; easy in mind

  5. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.

    zuverlässig

    надёжныйnadjóžnyj

    not likely to fail or give way

  6. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.

    sicher, zuverlässig

  7. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.

    secure of a welcome

  8. Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.

    Just when victory seemed secure, they let it slip from their grasp.

  9. (obsolete)Overconfident; incautious; careless.

Examples

182 sentences
  1. Is it secure?

    Це безпечно?

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  2. Please choose a more secure password.

    Будь ласка, оберіть більш надійний пароль.

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  3. I'm beginning to feel quite secure.

    ruЯ начинаю чувствовать себя довольно уверенно.

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  4. Tom strikes me as pretty secure.

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  5. He has managed to secure several accounts.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Firm and not likely to fail; stable:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
free from attack or danger; protected:
Firm and not likely to fail; stable:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, car

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”).

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Forms

securer/more secure, securest/most secure
Comparativesecurer / more secure Lesson
Superlativesecurest / most secure Lesson

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Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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