1 not confident about yourself or your relationships with other people:
He's very insecure about his appearance. * She felt nervous and insecure.
2 not safe or protected:
Jobs nowadays are much more insecure than they were ten years ago. * As an artist he was always financially insecure. * Insecure doors and windows (= for example, without good locks) make life easy for burglars.
OPPSECURE
insecurely adverb
insecurity noun [U,C] (plural insecurities):
feelings of insecurity * job insecurity * We all have our fears and insecurities. * The incident brought back childhood insecurities.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is insecure a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, insecure is tagged as adjective.
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