insecure
adjective/ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊə(r)/
/ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊr/
- not confident about yourself or your relationships with other people
- He's very insecure about his appearance.
- She felt nervous and insecure.
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1- He felt a little insecure about being left alone.
- a star who is notoriously insecure about her looks
- He was a rather insecure young man with a slight stammer.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- feel
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
- not safe or protected
- Jobs nowadays are much more insecure than they were ten years ago.
- As an artist he was always financially insecure.
- Many people use insecure passwords or they use the same password for everything.
- Insecure doors and windows (= for example, without good locks) make life easy for burglars.
- They are worried about losing their jobs and becoming financially insecure.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- feel
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
- likely to move, fall down, etc. synonym unstable (3)
- an insecure ladder/footbridge
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin insecurus ‘unsafe’, from in- ‘not’ + Latin securus ‘free from care’, or from in- ‘not’ + secure.
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