unsecure

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8

Definition of unsecure

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (rare)insecure
    “All great concernments must delays endure;”
    “Has my Goodnes Clemencie, loue, and fauour gratious raysed thee From a Condition next to popular labour Tooke thee from all the dubitable hazards Of Fortune, her most unsecure aduentures And grafted thee into a Branch of honor […]”
    “[…] [the elevator] was in operation when it fell; its fall was due to the settling of the piers and the unsecure foundation of the elevator […]”
    “In this chapter, you examine methods for encrypting data before it is sent across an unsecure network such as the Internet.”
    “Unsecure networks pose a substantial security risk to your systems or data.”
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adj

  1. (rare)insecure
    “All great concernments must delays endure;”
    “Has my Goodnes Clemencie, loue, and fauour gratious raysed thee From a Condition next to popular labour Tooke thee from all the dubitable hazards Of Fortune, her most unsecure aduentures And grafted thee into a Branch of honor […]”
    “[…] [the elevator] was in operation when it fell; its fall was due to the settling of the piers and the unsecure foundation of the elevator […]”
    “In this chapter, you examine methods for encrypting data before it is sent across an unsecure network such as the Internet.”
    “Unsecure networks pose a substantial security risk to your systems or data.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To make insecure or less secure.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From un- + secure. Piecewise doublet of insecure and unsure, as well as of etymology 2.

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