insecure

[In`se*cureĀ·]

Insecure means either lacking self confidence or lacking security. An insecure person might constantly doubt their own intelligence. An insecure building is an easy target for even the most bumbling burglar.

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Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.

Adjective
lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability"

Adjective
lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"

Adjective
not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"

Adjective S.
not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can''t help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

Adjective S.
not safe from attack

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a.
Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.

a.
Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss.


Insecure

In`se*cure" , a. 1. Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
With sorrow and insecure apprehensions.
2. Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss. Bp. Hurg.
The trade with Egypt was exceedingly insecure and precarious.

Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.

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Usage Examples

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

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Other Usage Examples

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

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