unsafe

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈseɪf/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪf

From un- (not) +‎ safe.

unsafe (comparative more unsafe or unsafer, superlative most unsafe or unsafest)

1. Not safe (various senses); dangerous.
   • 2015 October, Luis Mastrangelo et al., “Use at your own risk: the Java unsafe API in the wild”, in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, volume 50, number 10, →DOI:

     For much the same reasons that safe languages are preferred over unsafe languages, these powerful---but unsafe---capabilities in Java should be restricted.

   • 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: More trains... but advice is not to use public transport”, in Rail, pages 7–8:

     "RMT has made it clear that our members have a right to refuse to work in unsafe conditions, and the union will be closely monitoring the situation. [...]"

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

From un- (reversive prefix) +‎ safe.

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).

• faunes, fausen