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    Unsafe

    Definitions

    1 | adjective | lacking in security or safety 2 | adjective | involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm 3 | adjective | not safe from attack

    Pronunciation

    uhns'eyf (IPA: ənsˈeɪf)

    Hyphenation

    un-safe (6 letters | 2 syllables)

    First known use in English

    1597 (Elizabethan era | European Renaissance) (428 years ago)

    Word frequency history

    Inflected forms

    unsafer | unsafest

    Synonyms

    insecure | dangerous | harmful

    Rhymes

    chafe | safe | strafe | waif (based on typical American pronunciation)

    Lexically close words

    insane | unsafely | unsaid | unsaved | unsays | unsure (total: 6)

    Anagrams

    (none among common words)

    Translations

    Spanish: | inseguro (investment) | arriesgado (investment) French: | risqué (investment) | hasardeux (investment) Portuguese: | inseguro (investment) | arriscado (investment) | perigoso (investment) German: | unsicher (investment) | riskant (investment) Italian: | rischioso (investment) | poco sicuro (investment) | pericoloso (investment)

    Other notable uses

    unsafe.com | unsafe.net | unsafe.info | unsafe.biz

    Crossword puzzle clues

    Liable to cause injury | Precarious | Risky | Wobbly, say (total: 4) (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

    Scrabble score

    9 (International English) | 9 (North American English)

    Phone keypad digits

    (???) ?86-7233

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