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unˈsafe, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not enjoying safety; exposed to danger or risk.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. ii. 32 Vnsafe the while, that wee must laue Our Honors in these flattering streames. a1618Raleigh Rem. (1664) 151 People that were..un-safe, or un⁓sure for their lives. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 277 Which makes the man's estate unquiet and unsafe, because he hath many competitors. 1892Tennyson Foresters iv. i, I have let them know Their lives unsafe in..our woods.
2. a. Of actions, etc.: Involving, or not free from, danger or risk.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlii. §2 Yet others should be taught how unsafe it was to continue his friends. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. i. 43 Let's think't vnsafe To come into the cry. 1611― Wint. T. ii. ii. 30 These dangerous, unsafe Lunes i' th' King. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 84 This great number of slaves make it unsafe to walk the streets..unarm'd. 1722Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 665 Our Assembly..declared the unsafe tendency of several propositions advanced by them. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 168 [He] thought its appearance so unsafe, that..he chose to mount a horse. 1836Thirlwall Greece xxii. III. 259 A small number whom it appeared unsafe to trust. 1864E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene 427 Rain water may be unsafe, if the tanks are not clean.
b. Of ways or places: Dangerous from natural or other causes.
1621in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 274 The tyme of winter had made the wayes unsafe. 1650in Verney Memoirs (1907) I. 464 The wayes are everywhere unsafe for travell. 1686A. Horneck Crucif. Jesus xxii. 661 Where the roads are unsafe, there men carry swords. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 315 Full of sharp-pointed coral rocks, which..renders it a very unsafe place to lie at. 1781Cowper Heroism 33 Oh, bliss precarious, and unsafe retreats! 1830Wordsw. Russian Fugitive ii. ii, And midway in the unsafe morass, A single Island rose Of firm dry ground. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xx, While Nero..made the streets..unsafe with riot and assault.
c. unsafe period, the part of the menstrual cycle during which conception is most likely.
1961G. Greene Burnt-Out Case iii. i. 82 He sometimes allowed her to be alone during her monthly or unsafe periods. 1969Times 20 Nov. 3/3 The Roman Catholic Church has revised its ideas about the..‘unsafe period’ and now makes it four days around the mid-point of the female cycle.
3. Not to be trusted to; unreliable.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 88 No obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance,..can come betweene me, and the full prospect of my hopes. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 92 A number of wracks..did miserably testifie the unsafe protection of that harbour. 1660Jer. Taylor Ductor ii. iii. rule 14 §2 The topick of traditions..was..false in many things, and therefore unsafe in all questions. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 635 Land..on which it is deemed unsafe to sow grain, on account of the worm. 1863Smith's Dict. Bible II. s.v. Phut, Such mere similarity of sound is a most unsafe guide. 1894A. Robertson Nuggets 34 We say ‘As unsafe as a bank’, after what has occurred in Melbourne.
Add:4. Law. Of a verdict, conviction, etc.: open to the possibility of being proved a miscarriage of justice. Freq. in phr. unsafe and unsatisfactory.
1904Rep. Comm. Inquiry case Mr. A. Beck 332 in Parl. Papers 1905 (Cd. 2315) LXII. 465 The new evidence, without establishing the innocence of the prisoner, throws sufficient doubt on the conviction to make it unsafe to detain the prisoner. 1907F. E. Smith in Hansard Commons 29 July 631 To substitute words directing the Court to allow the appeal if they think the verdict is, under all the circumstances of the case, unsafe or unsatisfactory. 1962Criminal Appeal Rep. XLVI. 34 The court, though with great hesitation, has come to the conclusion that it would be unsafe to allow this conviction to stand. 1973Times 16 Oct. 2/4 Lord Justice Megaw..held that Mr Gray's conviction was ‘unsafe and unsatisfactory’ after receiving fresh evidence. 1989Times 21 Mar. 5/8 There was nothing unsafe about the verdicts.
▸ Designating unprotected sexual activity that carries a significant risk of unplanned pregnancy or the transmission of a sexually transmitted infection (esp. HIV); spec. designating penetrative sex without the use of a condom. Chiefly in unsafe sex. Cf. safe sex n. (b) at safe adj. Additions.
1981Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 13 Mar. He warned members of the gay community against some unsafe sexual practices. 1984N.Y. Times 10 Oct. a18/1 An April ordinance went into effect banning ‘unsafe’ sexual activity at sex parlors and bathhouses. 1994Palm Beach (Florida) Post 19 Apr. 17 a, The majority of students will see a friend pregnant and be scared into seeing the reality of unsafe sex. 1999M. Silcott Rave Amer. vi. 174 The combination of unsafe sex and the drugs could lead to a super-AIDS strain that is resistant to the treatment. 2005Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 29 Sept. 5 The findings underlined the need for renewed national efforts to reinforce the public health message about unsafe sex. |