insecurity
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sɪˈkyʊər
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insecure (ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | anxious or afraid; not confident or certain |
| 2. | not adequately protected: an insecure fortress |
| 3. | unstable or shaky |
| inse'curely | |
| —adv | |
| inse'cureness | |
| —n | |
| inse'curity | |
| —n | |
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Insecurity
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
It must be said that his nasty tone betrays insecurity and suggests maybe he's not really all that sure of himself.
But for many workers, the only thing that has increased is insecurity.
And this is to say nothing of the relatively low pay and increasing insecurity of the profession itself.
If a certain uncertainty was the new status quo, the insecurity was mostly about money.
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