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Adjective: unsafe (unsafer,unsafest)  ,ún'seyf
  1. Lacking in security or safety
    "his fortune was increasingly unsafe";
    - insecure
     
  2. Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
    - dangerous
     
  3. Not safe from attack
    - insecure

Derived forms: unsafer, unsafest

See also: breakneck, chanceful [archaic], chancy, desperate, dicey, dodgy [Brit, informal], hazardous, insidious, mordacious, on the hook, out on a limb, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, self-destructive, shaky, suicidal, touch-and-go, treacherous, unguaranteed, unprotected, unreliable, unsecured, vulnerable, wild

Antonym: safe, secure