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insecure

adjective
🔊/ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊə(r)/
🔊/ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊr/
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  1. not confident about yourself or your relationships with other people缺乏信心的；无把握的
    • He's very insecure about his appearance.他对自己的长相很没信心。🔊🔊
    • She felt nervous and insecure.她感到局促不安。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • He felt a little insecure about being left alone.只剩下他一个人，他觉得有些不安。
    • a star who is notoriously insecure about her looks出了名的对自己的相貌缺乏自信的女星
    • He was a rather insecure young man with a slight stammer.他是一个相当不安全的年轻人，口齿不清。
    Topics Feelingsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • appear
    • be
    • feel
    • …
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
    preposition
    • about
    See full entry
  2. not safe or protected不安全的；无保障的；不牢靠的
    • Jobs nowadays are much more insecure than they were ten years ago.当今的工作比十年前要不安稳得多了。🔊🔊
    • As an artist he was always financially insecure.作为一名艺术家，他在经济上总是没有保障。🔊🔊
    • Many people use insecure passwords or they use the same password for everything.许多人使用不安全的密码，或者他们对所有内容使用相同的密码。
    • Insecure doors and windows (= for example, without good locks) make life easy for burglars.门窗不牢靠方便了窃贼。🔊🔊
    • men who are worried about losing their jobs and becoming financially insecure担心失业从而失去经济保障的人
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • appear
    • be
    • feel
    • …
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
    preposition
    • about
    See full entry
  3. likely to move, fall down, etc. synonym unstable (3)
    • an insecure ladder/footbridge不安全的梯子/行人天桥
    4. opposite secure
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin insecurus ‘unsafe’, from in- ‘not’ + Latin securus ‘free from care’, or from in- ‘not’ + secure.