different between safe vs genuine

English

Etymology

From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh?- (“whole, every”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?f, IPA^(key): /se?f/
• Rhymes: -e?f
• Hyphenation: safe

Adjective

safe (comparative safer or more safe, superlative safest or most safe)

1. Not in danger; out of harm's reach.

2. Free from risk.

   Synonyms: riskless, harmless

   Antonyms: harmful, dangerous

3. Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.

4. (baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.

5. Properly secured.

   Synonym: secure

   Hyponyms: binary-safe, fail-safe, thread-safe, type-safe

6. (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.

7. (Britain, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.

   Synonyms: wicked, cool; see also Thesaurus:awesome
8. (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.

   Synonyms: easy-going, merciful, tolerant, lenient

   Antonyms: strict, harsh, intolerant

9. Reliable; trusty.

   Synonym: trustworthy

10. Cautious.
11. (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.

Antonyms

• unsafe

Translations

Noun

safe (plural safes)

1. A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
2. (slang) A condom.
   • 1999, Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, Delta (1999), ?ISBN, page 328:

     She'd better have an arsenal of Trojans in her purse just in case he wasn't carrying a safe in his back pocket.

3. (dated) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
4. (dated, colloquial) A safety bicycle.

Synonyms

• (box for storing valuables): coffer, lockbox, strongbox
• (condom): see also Thesaurus:condom.

Hyponyms

• failsafe

Translations

Verb

safe (third-person singular simple present safes, present participle safing, simple past and past participle safed)

1. (transitive) To make something safe.

Derived terms

Related terms

• better safe than sorry
• Coolgardie safe

See also

• save
• safety

References

• safe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• safe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• safe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• safe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• EFAs, FAEs, faes

Hausa

Adverb

s?fe

1. in the morning

Middle English

Adjective

safe

1. Alternative form of sauf

Preposition

safe

1. Alternative form of sauf

Conjunction

safe

1. Alternative form of sauf

Portuguese

Verb

safe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of safar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of safar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of safar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of safar

English

Etymology

From Latin genuinus (“innate, native, natural”), from gignere, from Old Latin genere (“to beget, produce”); see genus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?n?yo?o?n', j?n?yo?o?n' IPA^(key): /?d??nju???n/, /?d??nju??a?n/
• Rhymes: -?nju??n, -?nju?a?n

Adjective

genuine (comparative more genuine, superlative most genuine)

1. Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native
2. Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated

Synonyms

• authentic
• real
• natural
• (British dialectal) lubish
• true
• uncounterfeited
• See also Thesaurus:genuine

Antonyms

• fake
• ingenuine

Related terms

• genus

Translations

Further reading

• genuine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• genuine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Guienne, eugenin, ingenue, ingénue, unigene

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??enu?i?n?/
• Hyphenation: ge?nu?i?ne

Adjective

genuine

1. inflection of genuin:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

genuine

1. feminine plural of genuino

Anagrams

• ingenue

Latin

Adjective

genu?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of genu?nus

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

genuine

1. definite singular of genuin
2. plural of genuin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

genuine

1. definite singular of genuin
2. plural of genuin

Swedish

Adjective

genuine

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of genuin.