different between unsafe vs unsecure

English

Etymology

From un- +? safe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?se?f/
• Rhymes: -e?f

Adjective

unsafe (comparative more unsafe, superlative most unsafe)

1. Not safe (various senses); dangerous.

Synonyms

• (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsteady, unstable, wobbly

Translations

Verb

unsafe (third-person singular simple present unsafes, present participle unsafing, simple past and past participle unsafed)

1. (transitive) To remove the safety from (a weapon).

Anagrams

• faunes, fausen

English

Etymology

un- +? secure

Adjective

unsecure (comparative more unsecure, superlative most unsecure)

1. (rare) insecure
   • 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)

     All great concernments must delays endure;
     Rashness and haste make all things unsecure.

   • 1624, Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chesse

     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 […]

   • 1883, N. Y. Supreme Court (page 43)

     […] [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 […]

   • 2004, Stephen Walther, ASP.NET unleashed 2003 (page 923)

     In this chapter, you examine methods for encrypting data before it is sent across an unsecure network such as the Internet.

   • 2007, Brian Koerner, Windows Vista Security for Dummies (page 223)

     Unsecure networks pose a substantial security risk to your systems or data.

Anagrams

• unrecuse