unsafe

[Pref. un- (1), and Eng. safe, a.] 1. Not safe; not free from danger; not affording or accompanied by complete safety; perilous, dangerous, risky, hazardous. "It was unsafe to insult Lewis." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxiv. 2. Not to be trusted to or depended on. "False in many things, and therefore unsafe in all questions."-Bp. Taylor: Rule of Conscience, bk. ii., ch. iii. 3. Not free from risk or error. un-sāfe-ly, adv . [Eng. unsafe ; -ly.] Not safely; not in a safe manner; not without danger; dangerously, riskily. (Dryden: Eleonora , 368.)