Word Finder - safer

definition

Not in danger; out of harm's reach.

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You’ll be safe here.

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Free from risk.

example

It’s safe to eat this.

synonyms

• harmless
• riskless

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Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.

example

We have to find a safe spot, where we can hide out until this is over.

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When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.

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The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.

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Properly secured.

example

The documents are safe.

synonyms

• secure

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(used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.

example

dishwasher-safe

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Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.

synonyms

• cool
• wicked

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Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.

synonyms

• easy-going
• lenient
• merciful
• tolerant

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Reliable; trusty.

synonyms

• trustworthy

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Cautious.

definition

Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.

He got us moved to a nicer place; a safer location.

It was safer for you if you didn't know who I was.

It would make some people feel much safer.

She sought a safer topic, one that wouldn't leave her ready to scream.

He might think she would be safer that way.

Makes me feel safer.

She felt the thick, long proof of his arousal hard against her belly, but his effort to provide comfort rather than tend his own pleasure made her feel even safer in her killer's arms.

I suppose it would be safer than sending you out in the woods with a strange man.

It is safer to give it the more reasonable dimensions of Caesar, and to accept the verdict of later commentators that it never extended west of the Scheldt.

Relatively speaking, it's much safer inside.

Much safer and more powerful diuretics are now in use.

While back-country skiing was also popular, the ever constant danger of killing snow slides made marked trails a safer method of enjoying this vigorous sport.

Think we're safer at our base camp?

It was safer for Tim.

You're safer if Greene thinks you're dead.

It's safer here, and the supplies are dropped off every day about this time, Kelli explained.

We'd be safer if we could manage the wars within our boundaries.

If Darkyn is serious about killing us, he'll come back.  I'm safer with you.

Parkside was no safer than the worst of the worst—we might as well be living in Philadelphia, or, God forbid, The Big Apple!

Then again, after the way Josh acted, maybe she felt safer in jeans.

You should feel safer.

Suddenly, revealing secrets seemed much safer than a conversation about what he did to people who betrayed him.

If anything, Jessi was safer with Jenn than she was with him.

When there is an option between a tree and an adjacent house, the latter is doubtless the safer choice.

But as traffic becomes more dense, year by year, the rebuilding process is constant, and American railway lines are gradually becoming safer.

As was suggested at the outset, railway accident statistics are useful only as showing how to make life and limb safer, though in pursuing this object increased economy should also be secured.

We stand on safer ground when we come to Elijah's bold intervention on behalf of righteousness when he declared in the name of Yahweh the divine judgment on Ahab and his house for the judicial murder of Naboth.

It is perhaps safer to subdivide the Order into 6 Suborders (in the number of these following Benham, except in combining the Sabelliformia and Hermelliformia).

The queen dowager and her daughter were carefully watched at Linlithgow, but on the 23rd of July 1543 they escaped, with the help of Cardinal Beton, to the safer walls of Stirling castle.

Zvornik fell before the Austro-Hungarian army in 1688, and the Turkish vali, who was still officially styled the "vali of Hungary," removed his headquarters from Banjaluka to Travnik, a more southerly, and therefore a safer capital.

It is possible to tap or prick trees daily for a number of years without apparent injury, but the practice of tapping on alternate days appears to be safer and to afford equally satisfactory if not better results.

Until clearer evidence of foreign influence is found, it may, however, be safer to regard it simply as a new application of the old gild principle, though this new application may have been stimulated by continental example.

The natural route overland through Marseilles and Toulouse was held by his enemies; that through the empire from the head of the Adriatic was little safer, since Leopold of Austria was on the watch for him.

The latter class of coal contains the largest proportion of this dangerous gas, but holds it more tenaciously than do the steam coals, thus rendering the workings comparatively safer.

Many colliery managers, however, prefer to have only two opposite guides, as being safer.

Bridges would then be designed for these selected loads, and the process would be safer in dealing with flooring girders and shearing forces than the assumption of a uniform load.

The district is accordingly safer for Europeans than it was; but these still find themselves ill received.

This excessive adulteration quickly worked its own cure by a decreased consumption, and the weighting in practice in 1910 is confined to moderate and safer limits.

If vines have been neglected to be pruned, rub off the buds that are not wanted; this is safer than pruning now.

Wild shrewdly realized that it was safer, and in most cases more profitable, to dispose of such property by returning it to its legitimate owners than to sell it, with the attendant risks, in the open market, and he thus built up an immense business, posing as a recoverer of stolen goods, the thieves receiving a commission on the price paid for recovery.

The land was during this period threatened at once by the Ftimites from the west; the Nubians from the south, and the Carmathians from the east; when the second Ikshidi died in 965, Kfflr at first made a pretence of appointing his young son Abmad as his successor, but deemed it safer to assume the viceroyalty himself, setting an example which in Mameluke times was often followed.

Abu Sa`id al-Jannabi, who had founded a Carmathian state in Bahrein, the north-eastern province of Arabia (actually called Lahsa), which could become dangerous for the pilgrim road as well as for the commerce of Basra, in the year 900 routed an army sent against him by Motadid, and warned the caliph that it would be safer to let the Carmathians alone.

Experience, he declared 2 had proved, unfavourable to the working of representative institutions, and it was safer and better to begin with responsible government.

Under an act of 1791 harbour trustees were appointed who cleared and deepened the river bed and built a long pier on either side of it; in 1796 the approach to the port was made safer by means of an improved light on Mumbles Head.

Almost all the learned doctors, he says, declare that the confessor may reveal it, but he adds, " the contrary opinion is the safer and better doctrine, and more consistent with religion and with the reverence due to the holy rite of confession."

Hence bromide of potassium - or bromide of sodium, which is possibly somewhat safer still though not quite so certain in its action - is used as a hypnotic, as the standard anaphrodisiac, as a sedative in mania and all forms of morbid mental excitement, and in hyperaesthesia of all kinds.

There is no serious difficulty in so constructing walls of this kind as to be practically water-tight while they remain unbroken; but owing to the settlement of the earthen embankments and the changing level of saturation they are undoubtedly subject to irregular stresses which cannot be calculated, and under which, speaking generally, plastic materials are much safer.

It was also at one time used in dyeing and calico-printing, and for the unhairing of skins, &c.; but safer and equally efficient substitutes have been found.

Perhaps it is safer to attribute theriomorphic shapes of 4 Rig Veda, x.

The Swedish fleet was too weak for that; it would be safer to take and fortify the pick of them.