Word Finder - safest

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.

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It’s safe to eat this.

synonyms

• harmless
• riskless

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Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.

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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.

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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.

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dishwasher-safe

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

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• cool
• wicked

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

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• easy-going
• lenient
• merciful
• tolerant

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Reliable; trusty.

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• trustworthy

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Cautious.

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

As the prevailing winds are westerly, the safest anchorage is on the north-east.

It was supposed to be the safest place on the planet.

Though small, the harbour is one of the best and safest on the coast, as no river flows into it to fill its anchorage with silt.

It is therefore safest to rely on the texts collected by Mommsen, cumbered though they are by the various readings given to him by various authorities.

But spinners do not try always to take the safest course.

It is perhaps safest to say that the science of religions has no data on which to go, in formulating conclusions as to the original form of the objects of religious emotion; in this connexion it must be remembered that not only is it very difficult to get precise information of the subject of the religious ideas of people of low culture, perhaps for the simple reason that the ideas themselves are far from precise, but also that, as has been pointed out above, the conception of spiritual often approximates very closely to that of material.

In the course of a year the drastic measures of this born ruler made this state the safest country in Europe.

The first is the type of a certain a priori view, then regarded as the safest bulwark against infidelity, of which the main tenets were that the being of God was capable of a priori proof, and that, owing to the finitude of our faculties, the attributes and modes of operation of deity were absolutely incomprehensible.

Ill-disposed as Bernstorff was towards the Jacobins, he now condemned on principle any interference in the domestic affairs of France, and he was persuaded that Denmark's safest policy was to keep clear of every anti-French coalition.

The Cortes were dissolved, and the federal and constituent Cortes of the republic convened, but they only sat during the summer of 1873, long enough to show their absolute incapacity, and to convince the executive that the safest policy was to suspend the session for several months.

Wynn had always taken care of her, yet she'd felt safe at the Sanctuary and safest in Gabriel's arms.

I've chosen the safest route there is, but you're in danger no matter what route you choose.

It is safest therefore to identify these last with the royal palaces destroyed by Alexander.

The smoothest and safest running is, in fact, attained when a " transition," " easement " or " adjustment " curve is inserted between the tangent and the point of circular curvature.

Salicylates are the next safest to quinine of all antipyretics, whilst being much more powerful in all febrile states except malaria.

It stands on undulating and easily drained ground, upon a bed of sandstone rock, on a peninsula jutting into one of the deepest, safest and most beautiful harbours in the world; and in addition it lies in the centre of a great carboniferous area.

Rigid guides connected with the walling of the pit are probably the best and safest, but they have the disadvantage of being liable to distortion, in case of the pit altering its form, owing to irregular movements of the ground, or other causes.

In medicine it is employed as an aperient, and is one of the safest and most innocuous known.

As regards Mani himself, it is safest to assume that he held both Judaism and Catholic Christianity to be entirely false religions.

A watchful neutrality, not venturing much beyond defensive alliances and commercial treaties with the maritime powers, was therefore Sweden's safest policy, and this the older Caps had always followed out.

The relation of noiimena to phenomena in the Kantian system is a most difficult one; and, in view of the fact that the acutest intellects of Europe have been engaged vainly for more than a century in reconciling the various passages on the subject, the safest conclusion is that they are irreconcilable.

The action of quinine on the temperature is important, for it is the safest of all known antipyretics.

Quinine was the first antipyretic used, and after the introduction of such preparations as antipyrin and acetanilide it may still be said to be the safest, though it is much less powerful.

The harbour, one of the safest for small craft in the west country, is sheltered by two long and massive stone piers.

This action is obviously much reduced where the rock sides of the valley rise slowly; but in cases where the rock is very steep, the safest course is to face the facts, and not to depend for water-tightness upon the cementing of the masonry to the rock, but rather to provide a vertical key, or dowel joint, of some material like asphalt, which will always remain water-tight.

The safest thing for both of them was for him to keep his distance and remain objective.

Peace CC is safest, read another.

Bizerta occupies the site of the ancient Tyrian colony, Hippo Zarytus or Diarrhytus, the harbour of which, by means of a spacious pier, protecting it from the north-east wind, was rendered one of the safest and finest.

It seems safest to start from the fact that the prophecy is divided into two well-marked sections by ch.

His voyage was delayed by storms, and he appears to have been perplexed as to the safest route.

He was looked on by the ministerialists as the least unreasonable of his party, and by the "ultras" as the safest of their leaders.

The outer harbour is one of the safest in the kingdom.

The fairway between this bank, which begins to the west of Dumbarton, and the southern shore constitutes the safest anchorage in the upper firth.

Wherever the base of a puddle wall cannot be worked into a continuous bed of clay or shale, or tied into a groove cut in sound rock free from water-hearing fissures, the safest course is to base it on an artificial material at once impermeable and incapable of erosion, interposed between the rock and the puddled clay.

Seven-tenths of all precipitation falls in the growing season, giving the state, especially in the east, a greater amount at this time than many other states whose aggregate yearly rainfall is greater; so that Nebraska has an abundance for the safest cultivation.

The River Dee offers the safest anchorage on the Solway coast hence the growth of the town of Kirkcudbright in the medieval period.

Here's a real clincher to the line about voting machines being the safest, most secure form of voting ever devised.

The safest way is to use lifting plant such as a lorry-mounted crane, but many sites will not have suitable access.

The safest decision might be to throw an exception should the component not be in one of the year entry states.

Some amps have fuses built in but still safest to have an inline fuse as close to the battery as possible.

The bays, sandy coves and rocky inlets provide some of the safest spots for bathing, sailing and windsurfing in Cornwall.

This is the safest position for lifting, carrying, pushing a pushchair or standing for any length of time.

The safest place for children is properly restrained on the rear seat.

With Furness being a parliamentarian stronghold, Piel Harbor was the safest place for the fleet to anchor.

If you bounce around too much the clip does have a tendency to come unattached, so maybe a pocket is still safest.

Euphratean exploration has so far brought to light no traces of ecliptical partition by the moon's diurnal motion, unless, indeed, zodiacal associations be claimed for a set of twenty-eight deprecatory formulae against evil spirits inscribed on a Ninevite tablet.4 The safest general conclusions regarding this disputed subject appear to be that the sieu, distinctively and unvaryingly Chinese, cannot properly be described as divisions of a lunar zodiac, that the nakshatras, though of purely Indian origin, became modified by the successive adoption of Greek and Chinese rectifications and supposed improvements; while the manazil constituted a frankly eclectic system, in which elements from all quarters were combined.

With Furness being a Parliamentarian stronghold, Piel Harbor was the safest place for the fleet to anchor.

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The safest course may be to seek leave from the wardship court.

In fact, although some parents still put their babies to sleep on their sides, the back position is the safest position for your baby.