safe – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of safe

Adjective: safe

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativesafer
Superlativesafest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore safe
Superlativemost safe

Sample Sentences

  • You’ll be safe from the storm here in the cabin.
  • It’s safe to eat this berry.
  • In fact, in presenting the home life of these people I have been at some pains to avoid the extreme of privation, taking the cases just as they came to hand on the safer middle-ground of average earnings. [1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 133:]
  • When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • Probably the safest and easiest 'tool' that you can use to get off your rusty-dusty and follow your choice of exercise routine. [2012, D.B. Myers, The BodyWise Health System, page 37:]
  • We have to find a safe spot, where we can hide out until this is over.
  • The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.
  • The documents are safe inside the cabbinet.
  • dishwasher-safe
  • and you also forgot to mentioned^([sic]) the wheels man you know bmw playing / ragga jungle hip hop tunes / and on the mobile / yeah safe! / nice one / later [1996 August 12, "Mandrake", “Re: Multiple Messages - an apology”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet):]
  • Young Mal: Yu can’t. Irie means yer cool, yer safe, everything awright. [1996 or 1997, Roy Williams, Plays 1: The No Boys Cricket Club / Startstruck / Lift Off, Methuen, published 2002, →ISBN, page 165:]
  • “If you need more, just ring, yeah?” Punch said.
  • “Safe,” Brian answered. [2000, Teddy Hayes, Dead by Popular Demand, Justin, Charles & Co., published 2005, →ISBN, Chapter 14, page 134:]
  • They end the call. Fami goes over to Paul. They touch hands.¶ Femi: Yeah, safe man. [2002, Danny Braverman, Playing a Part: Drama and Citizenship, Trentham Books, →ISBN, One Thursday — a short play, page 62:]
  • “Yeah, safe mate, wassup?” says one hoodie, who should at least be credited with attempting a more detailed sentence construction. [2013, Steve Carter, Love, Sex and Tesco's Finest Cava, →ISBN, page 169:]
  • Dom (David Jonsson): Hey, love the photos. They're just so—
  • Nathan (Simon Manyonda): Safe. [2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:]
  • It is clear that this is not a safe conviction.
  • safe food
  • "[…] so if you think he is at the infirmary, I'll make my way there." "He's safe to be there, my lad, because he's house surgeon to the infirmary, and they do say he's a very clever one." [1883, Emma Raymond Pitman, Florence Godfrey's Faith: A Story of Australian Life, page 137:]
  • "He's safe to be hanged, an' that, all in an' out, when they recovred there senses an' ther tongue, offert to make affidavid on, if they were askt upon oath." [2023 May 3 [????], William Hamilton Maxwell, Erin-go-Bragh: Vol. I, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 318:]

Adjectives inflected like safe

serene, severe, secure, sedate, wheelie, simple, complete, fulsome, sprightlie, discrete, plosive, bizarre, brusque, brittle, wholesome, sincere, shystie, loveable, prophane, terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. From Middle English sauf, safe, saf, saaf, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf (“safe”), from Latin salvus (“whole, safe”), from Proto-Italic *salawos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, every”).
2. Displaced Old English sicor (“secure, sure”). See: Latin Adjectives 'salvus'.

Verbs referencing "safe"

German Adjectives safe, Spanish Adjectives salvo.