- 1not confident about yourself or your relationships with other people He's very insecure about his appearance. She felt nervous and insecure. Oxford Collocations Dictionary verbsappear, be, feel, … adverbextremely, fairly, very, … prepositionabout See full entry
- 2not 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. Oxford Collocations Dictionary verbsappear, be, feel, … adverbextremely, fairly, very, … prepositionabout See full entry opposite secure Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin insecurus ‘unsafe’, from in- ‘not’ + Latin securus ‘free from care’, or from in- ‘not’ + secure.Extra examples He felt a little insecure about being left alone. a star who is notoriously insecure about her looks men who are worried about losing their jobs and becoming financially insecure He was a rather insecure young man with a slight stammer. He’s very insecure about his appearance. Insecure doors and windows make life easy for burglars.
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