insecure

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪnsəˈkjʊə(ɹ)/|/ɪnsəˈkjɔː(ɹ)/    美 /ɪnsəˈkjʊɹ/|/ɪnsəˈkjɝ/|/ɪnsəˈkjɔɹ/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not secure.
    — It was, as Carrados explained, entirely his own preposterous fault. Nothing but curiosity about the size of the room had impelled him to touch the walls, and the picture, having a weak cord or an insecure nail ... had it not brought something else down in its fall?
  2. Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations.
    — He's a nice guy and all, but seems to be rather insecure around other people.

词形变化

more insecure comparative most insecure superlative

词汇关系

反义词
confident self-confident
衍生词
food-insecure insecurely insecureness insecurity

词源

From in- + secure, or from Medieval Latin insēcūrus, itself from in- (“in-, un-, non-”) + sēcūrus (“safe, certain”). Piecewise doublet of unsecure and unsure.
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