secure

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   free from danger or risk

   secure from harm

2. 2
   adj

   not likely to fail or give way

   the lock was secure

3. 3
   adj

   Free from attack or danger; protected.

   The vast majority of American Jews not only greatly dislike President Trump but also believe he has made them less safe: according to a May 2019 poll, nearly three-quarters of Jewish voters believe American Jews are less secure under Trump than they were before, 71 percent disapprove of Trump’s overall job performance, and nearly 60 percent believe that he bears at least some responsibility for the synagogue shootings carried out by white nationalists in Pittsburgh and Poway.

4. 4
   adj

   Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.

   But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.

5. 5
   adj

   Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.

   secure of a welcome

6. 6
   adj

   Overconfident; incautious; careless.

   They were secure where they ought to have been wary, and timorous where they might well have been secure.

7. 7
   adj

   Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.

   Just when victory seemed secure, they let it slip from their grasp.

8. 8
   verb

   To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

   I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).