securely — English Dictionary

Adverb

1. In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger.

   Synonyms

   safely

   Examples

   Check all personal items are securely stowed in the overhead lockers.

   A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all.

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   Only 5% of securely attached male subjects showed subsequent psychopathology compared to 40% of the insecurer attached males.

Adverb

1. in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger

   Synonyms

   firmly

   Examples

   she held the child securely

2. in a confident and unselfconscious manner

   Antonyms

   insecurely

   Examples

   he acts very securely in front of the camera

3. in a manner free from fear or risk

   Antonyms

   insecurely

   Examples

   the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection

4. in an invulnerable manner

   Examples

   the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held