Definition of safe

"safe" in the noun sense

1. safe

strongbox where valuables can be safely kept

2. safe

a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests

3. condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic

contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse

"safe" in the adjective sense

1. safe

free from danger or the risk of harm

"a safe trip"

"you will be safe here"

"a safe place"

"a safe bet"

2. safe

of an undertaking) secure from risk

3. safe

having reached a base without being put out

"the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball"

4. dependable, good, safe, secure

financially safe

"a good investment"

"a secure investment"

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Quotations for safe

She that is loved is safe. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Confidence is nowhere safe. [ Virgil ]

As safe as a thief in a mill. [ Proverb ]

He that is too secure is not safe. [ Proverb ]

Riches breed care, poverty is safe. [ Danish Proverb ]

No safe wading in an unknown water. [ Proverb ]

It is good riding in a safe harbour. [ Proverb ]

Things which have been lost are safe. [ Motto ]

Keep the common road and you are safe. [ Proverb ]

Dry feet, warm head, bring safe to bed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wickedness may be safe, but not secure. [ Seneca ]

Desperate evils generally make men safe. [ Seneca ]

It is safe taking a slice off a cut loaf. [ Proverb ]

The way to be safe, is never to be secure. [ Proverb ]

Praise not the ford till you are safe over. [ Proverb ]

In the company of strangers silence is safe. [ Proverb ]

One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [ Schiller ]

In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. [ Walt Whitman ]

A guilty conscience never thinks itself safe. [ Proverb ]

Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast. [ Swift ]

None can be wise and safe but he that is honest. [ Proverb ]

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution.
She lives, whom we call dead. [ Longfellow ]

He whose father is judge goes safe to his trial. [ Proverb ]

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. [ Epictetus ]

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill. [ Corn. Nepos ]

If we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last. [ Emerson ]

He is safe from danger who is on his guard even when safe. [ Syrus ]

Life in harmony with virtue is the only life safe from contempt. [ Edwin P. Whipple ]

He came safe from the East Indies, and was drowned in the Thames. [ Proverb ]

Be it your care to follow; with me for your guide you will be safe. [ Ovid ]

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. [ John A. Shedd ]

Better be poor and live safe at land, than be rich and perish in the sea. [ Proverb ]

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [ Ovid ]

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. [ Hosea Ballou ]

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

There is nothing so strong or safe, in any emergency of life, as the simple truth. [ Charles Dickens ]

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. [ Barrow ]

Rose of the desert! thus should woman be Shining uncourted, lone and safe, like thee. [ Moore ]

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. [ Socrates ]

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [ Horace ]

There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. [ Johnson ]

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [ Ovid ]

To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. [ Junius ]

Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing. [ Boufflers ]

Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste: civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure. [ Paley ]

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention. [ Swift ]

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb. [ Mrs. S. P. Parton ]

Nothing lives in literature but that which has in it the vitality of the creative art; and it would be safe advice to the young to read nothing but what is old. [ K P. Whipple ]

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

As the cautious pilot steers the ship clear of the breakers, and brings the vessel safe to port, so should we steer our life-ship clear of the rocks and shoals of sin to the port of everlasting life. [ James Ellis ]

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public... [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe; it is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with large discount, or utter unbelief. [ W. B. Kinney ]

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]

safe in Scrabble®

The word safe is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters safe:

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safe in Words With Friends™

The word safe is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Word Growth involving safe

Shorter words in safe

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Longer words containing safe

failsafe failsafed

failsafe failsafes

firesafe firesafeness

firesafe firesafes

firesafe firesafety

safecracker safecrackers

safecracking

safegaurds

safeguard safeguarded

safeguard safeguarder safeguarders

safeguard safeguarding

safeguard safeguards

safekeeper safekeepers

safekeeping safekeepings

safelight safelights

safely supersafely

safely unsafely

safemaker safemakers

safemaking

safeness firesafeness

safeness supersafeness

safeness unsafeness

safer

safes failsafes

safes firesafes

safes safest unsafest

safes vouchsafes

safetied

safeties biosafeties

safeties supersafeties

safety biosafety

safety firesafety

safety safetying

safety supersafety

supersafe supersafely

supersafe supersafeness

supersafe supersafeties

supersafe supersafety

unsafe unsafely

unsafe unsafeness

unsafe unsafest

vouchsafe vouchsafed

vouchsafe vouchsafes