1 (of a thing, a place or an activity) not safe; dangerous:
The roof was declared unsafe. * It was considered unsafe to release the prisoners. * unsafe sex (= for example, sex without a CONDOM)
2 (of people) in danger of being harmed:
He felt unsafe and alone.
3 (law) (of a decision in a court of law) based on evidence that may be false or is not good enough:
Their convictions were declared unsafe.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for unsafe is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unsafe a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unsafe is tagged as adjective.
Does unsafe appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — unsafe appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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