not confident about yourself or your relationships with other people 缺乏信心的；无把握的 Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1He 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. 他是个相当缺乏安全感的年轻人，有点口吃。
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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，或者他们对任何事情都使用相同的密码。 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
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likely to move, fall down, etc. 不安全 an insecure ladder/footbridge 不安全的梯子/人行桥
opposite secure
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin insecurus ‘unsafe’, from in- ‘not’ + Latin securus ‘free from care’, or from in- ‘not’ + secure.