Word Meanings - SAFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare, safety. Cf. Salute, 1. Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. "And

Additional info about word: SAFE

fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare, safety. Cf. Salute, 1. Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. "And ye dwelled safe." 1 Sam. xii. 11. They escaped all safe all safe to land. Acts xxvii. 44. Established in a safe, unenvied throne. Milton. 2. Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. "The man of safe discretion." Shak. The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat. Milton. 3. Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe. But Banquo's safe Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides. Shak. Safe hit , a hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side. Syn. -- Secure; unendangered; sure.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SAFE)

• Alive
• Quick
• living
• breathing
• warm
• lively
• vivacious
• alert
• existing
• existent
• safe
• subsisting
• active
• brisk
• animated
• Secure
• Safe
• easy
• fixed
• sheltered
• fast
• sure
• certain
• confident
• unanxious
• careless
• protected
• ensured
• Sure
• Certain
• secure
• assured
• unmistakable
• stable
• firm
• knowing
• believing
• trusting
• unquestioning
• positive
• unfailing
• strong
• permanent
• abiding
• enduring
• infallible
• indisputable

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SAFE)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to SAFE)

• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• LIVINGNESS
  The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
• LIVED
  Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• LIVE
  liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• INDISPUTABLE
  Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ENSURER
  See INSURER
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• INCOMMENSURABLE
  Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other;
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.