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| Main Entry: |
unsafe
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, chancy, erratic, explosive, fearsome, hanging by a thread, hazardous, insecure, on a limb, on thin ice, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, slippery, threatening, ticklish, touch and go, touchy*, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsound, unstable, untrustworthy |
| Antonyms: | harmless, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, corroding, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, harassing, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malefic, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, undermining, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent |
| Main Entry: | hazardous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, unpredictable |
| Synonyms: | chancy, dicey, difficult, hairy*, haphazard, hot*, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked |
| Antonyms: | certain, guarded, predictable, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inflammable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to burn |
| Synonyms: | burnable, combustible, dangerous, flammable, hazardous, ignitable, incendiary, risky, unsafe |
| Notes: | remember inflammable has in- which means 'into,' meaning it will burst into flame; non- in nonflammable means 'not,' meaning will not burst into flame |
| Antonyms: | fire-proof, incombustible, non-flammable, non-inflammable |
| Main Entry: | insecure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, precarious |
| Synonyms: | defenseless, exposed, fluctuant, frail, hazardous, immature, insubstantial, loose, open to attack, perilous, rickety, rocky, rootless, shaky, unguarded, unprotected, unreliable, unsafe, unshielded, unsound, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vulnerable, wavering, weak, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | guarded, protected, safe, secure, sound |
| Main Entry: | mad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy, insane |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, absurd, bananas, batty, crazed, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, distracted, fantastic, foolhardy, foolish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, illogical, imprudent, invalid, irrational, kooky, loony, ludicrous, lunatic, mental, non compos mentis, nonsensical, nutty, of unsound mind, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, preposterous, psychotic, rabid, raving, senseless, unbalanced, unhinged, unreasonable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, wacky* |
| Antonyms: | balanced, ok, rational, reasonable, sane, sound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perilous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | Russian roulette, chancy, delicate, dicey, dynamite, exposed, hairy*, hazardous, insecure, loaded, on thin ice, playing with fire, precarious, risky, rugged, shaky, threatening, ticklish, touch and go, touchy, treacherous, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable, wicked* |
| Antonyms: | ok, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | precarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tricky, doubtful |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, dicey, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hairy*, hanging by a thread, hazardous, iffy, impugnable, indecisive, insecure, loaded, on thin ice, open, out on a limb, perilous, problematic, risky, rocky, rugged*, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touch and go, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, firm, stable, strong, sure, undoubted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ramshackle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | falling apart; in poor condition |
| Synonyms: | broken-down, crumbling, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, flimsy, jerry-built, rickety, shabby, shaky, tottering, tumble-down, unfirm, unsafe, unsteady |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, repaired, stable |
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