"unsafe" meaning in English

See unsafe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ʌnˈseɪf/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unsafe.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more unsafe [comparative], unsafer [comparative], most unsafe [superlative], unsafest [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪf Etymology: From un- + safe. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|safe}} un- + safe Head templates: {{en-adj|more|er}} unsafe (comparative more unsafe or unsafer, superlative most unsafe or unsafest)
  1. Not safe (various senses); dangerous. Synonyms (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsteady, unstable, wobbly Derived forms: memory-unsafe, unsafe sex Translations (not safe): несигурен (nesiguren) (Bulgarian), опасен (opasen) (Bulgarian), insegur (Catalan), usikker (Danish), onveilig (Dutch), turvaton (note: not safe) (Finnish), vaarallinen (english: dangerous) (Finnish), dangereux (French), unsicher (German), insicura (Italian), intūtus (Latin), haumarukore (Maori), usikker (Norwegian Bokmål), usikker (Norwegian Nynorsk), niebezpieczny (Polish), inseguro (Portuguese), nesigur (Romanian), опасный (opasnyj) (Russian), opasan (Serbo-Croatian), inseguro (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-unsafe-en-adj-SlpjBdgj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 49 51

Verb

IPA: /ʌnˈseɪf/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unsafe.wav [Southern-England] Forms: unsafes [present, singular, third-person], unsafing [participle, present], unsafed [participle, past], unsafed [past]
Rhymes: -eɪf Etymology: From un- + safe. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|safe}} un- + safe Head templates: {{en-verb}} unsafe (third-person singular simple present unsafes, present participle unsafing, simple past and past participle unsafed)
  1. (transitive) To remove the safety from (a weapon). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-unsafe-en-verb-aDGotWS7 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 49 51

Inflected forms

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