inseguras

Inseguras is the feminine plural form of the adjective inseguro in Spanish and insegura in Portuguese, both meaning unsafe or insecure. It is used to describe feminine nouns and agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies. The corresponding masculine forms are inseguro (singular) and inseguros (plural) in Spanish, and inseguro (masculine singular), inseguros (masculine plural), insegura (feminine singular) and inseguras (feminine plural) in Portuguese.

Etymologically, inseguras derives from the negating prefix in- added to seguro, which comes from Latin securus, meaning free from danger or concern. Over time, inseguro/insegura developed into common descriptors of safety, risk, or certainty in both languages, with the same semantic core of not being secure.

In usage, inseguras describes places, situations, objects, or actions that are not safe. In Spanish, examples include zonas inseguras, calles inseguras, or conductas inseguras. In Portuguese, common expressions are áreas inseguras, situações inseguras, or sites inseguros. The term often appears in safety, urban planning, risk assessment, and cybersecurity contexts, where it conveys a lack of safety or reliability. For cybersecurity in both languages, phrases like sitio/site inseguro or site inseguro are used to warn that a site is unsafe.

Related terms include inseguridad (Spanish) and insegurança (Portuguese), the corresponding nouns for insecurity or lack of safety. Antonyms are seguro/segura and seguros/seguras, depending on gender and number. The form inseguras thus functions primarily as an adjective describing feminine plural nouns in everyday usage.