Safe
Safe adjective - Providing safety.
Usage example: we tried to find a safe place to hide our valuables while we went swimming
Threatening is an antonym for safe.
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Usage example: threatening rocks lined that narrow stretch of the river through which we would be rafting
Both words in one sentence
- Absolutely anything horrible can happen in an Alternate Universe — Zombie Apocalypse, life-threatening plague — and our Earth will still be safe, if we can close the portal.
Source: Expendable Alternate Universe -
However, learning that instead of being safe in your home, you're actually locked in the building with the psycho who's been making threatening calls, can still be pretty scary, cell phone or not.
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In The Lighthouse Duet, all Valen wanted was a safe place to recover from life-threatening wounds.
Source: I Just Want to Be Normal
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Threatening and Safe. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/safe/threatening
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Threatening or Safe. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/safe/threatening.
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