Safe \Safe\, a. [Compar. Safer; superl. Safest.]
[OE. sauf,
F. sauf, fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare,
safety. Cf. Salute, Salvation, Sage a plant, Save,
Salvo an exception.]
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.
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They escaped all safe to land. --Acts xxvii.
44.
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Established in a safe, unenvied throne. --Milton.
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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.
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The King of heaven hath doomed
This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat.
--Milton.
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3. Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure
care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
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But Banquo's safe?
Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides. --Shak.
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Safe hit (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get
to first base even if no error is made by the other side.
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Syn: Secure; unendangered; sure.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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135 Moby Thesaurus words for "safe":
Fort Knox, OK, acceptable, all right, allowable, appropriate,
armed, bank, bona fide, bursary, calculating, canny, careful,
cash register, cashbox, cautious, chary, chest, circumspect,
cloaked, coffer, coin box, conservative, considerate, copyrighted,
correct, covered, crypt, defended, deliberate, dependable,
depository, discreet, exchequer, fisc, gingerly, gold depository,
guarded, guarding, harmless, healthy, heedful, hesitant, immune,
immunized, impregnable, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, insured,
intact, inviolable, invulnerable, judicious, justifiable,
justified, leaving out nothing, locker, mindful, money chest,
noncommittal, okay, on guard, overlooking no possibility, patented,
pawky, penny bank, permissible, piggy bank, policed, politic,
pork barrel, proper, protected, protecting, prudent, public crib,
public till, public treasury, public trough, regardful, reliable,
repository, right, riskless, safe and sound, safe-deposit box,
safeguarded, safeguarding, safely, satisfactory, scatheless,
screened, secure, secured, securely, sheltered, sheltering,
shielded, shielding, slow to act, solid, sound, storehouse,
strong room, strongbox, subtreasury, suitable, sure, tentative,
thorough, till, timely, treasure-house, treasury, tried and true,
unadventurous, unassailable, uncommunicative, undamaged, undaring,
unenterprising, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, uninjurious,
unpolluted, unprecipitate, unscathed, unthreatened, untouched,
vault, wary, whole, wholesome
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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