Food-secure
adj.hopeful, resilientprofessional
What it means
Having reliable access to enough nutritious food.
Reach for it when describing reliable access to enough nutritious food
The new cooperative helped fifty households become food-secure.
Choose between these
6- everyday
fed
the immediate fact is that someone has eaten
not when Fed says nothing about reliability or nutritional quality.
- warm
food supports health and wellbeing
not when Nourished describes an outcome, not secure access.
- professional
provisioned
supplies for a defined period are available
not when Provisioned is temporary and does not describe household access.
- professional
a household or region produces what it needs
not when Self-sufficiency is not required for food security.
- professional
current nutritional condition is the evidence
not when A well-nourished person can still face unstable future access.
- formal
food-sufficient
quantity is reliably adequate
not when Sufficiency may ignore nutrition, safety, and personal preference.
Said against
3- food-insecure
- hungry
- undernourished
It naturally appears in
3- become food-secure
The cooperative helped fifty households become food-secure.
- food-secure community
A food-secure community needs reliable transport as well as farms.
- remain food-secure
Emergency stores helped the island remain food-secure.
Where this comes from
- wiktionary, English adjective sense: having food security opens in a new tab · retrieved 2026-07-26
The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.