Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not assured; not bold or confident.
- Not to be trusted.
- Not insured against loss: as, goods unassured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not assured; not bold or confident.
- adjective obsolete Not to be trusted.
- adjective Not insured against loss.
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- adjective Not
assured .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking boldness or confidence
Etymologies
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Examples
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The new "two-tiered" system Napolitano spoke about hasn't been fully explained, and aside from a government-mandated, "If we see something, we'll say something," policy, America's safety remains unassured.
Conan: U.S. To Adopt Nicolas Cage Terror Alert System Carol Hartsell 2011
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And as long as Obama's margin over McCain is smaller than the number of unassured voters, he cannot really feel comfortable.
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If she were worth her salt she would have too much pride to be intimate with a youth in your unassured position, to say no worse.
Two on a Tower 2006
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Still He persisted in his design; and with a voice unassured and frequent interruptions, He contrived to finish the four first lines of the page.
The Monk 2004
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But there are times when, for all his determined good spirits, Mundy is infected by the unreality of the divided city, its gallows humor and doomed atmosphere of unassured survival.
Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003
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The salmon-pink emergency lights glowed on the deck, reacting with the pink coolant smoke, casting an unassured rosy glow on half the cabin and shadows on everything else.
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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The salmon-pink emergency lights glowed on the deck, reacting with the pink coolant smoke, casting an unassured rosy glow on half the cabin and shadows on everything else.
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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The salmon-pink emergency lights glowed on the deck, reacting with the pink coolant smoke, casting an unassured rosy glow on half the cabin and shadows on everything else.
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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With tremendous increase in our control of nature in our ability to utilize nature for human use and satisfaction, we find the actual realization of ends, the enjoyment of values, growing unassured and precarious.
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But we did not then venture to quote any long passages from the original, unassured how they might look on our page to the eyes of Young Britain.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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