Risky \Risk"y\, a.
Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter."
--W. Collins.
[1913 Webster]
Generalization are always risky. --Lowell.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
risky
adj 1: involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport";
"extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a
venturesome journey in wintertime"; "a venturous
enterprise" [syn: hazardous, venturesome, venturous]
2: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much
can't help being risky"; "speculative business
enterprises" [syn: bad, insecure, high-risk, speculative]
[also: riskiest, riskier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "risky":
accidental, adventitious, adventurous, aleatory, blue, broad,
casual, causeless, chance, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate,
destinal, desultory, dicey, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous,
full of risk, hairy, hazardous, iffy, incidental, indeterminate,
infirm, insecure, insubstantial, jeopardous, off-color,
on thin ice, perilous, precarious, provisional, racy, riskful,
risque, salty, scabrous, sensitive, shady, shaky, shifting, shifty,
slippery, speculative, spicy, suggestive, temporary, tentative,
ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, uncaused, uncertain,
undependable, undetermined, unexpected, unfaithworthy,
unforeseeable, unforeseen, unhealthy, unlooked-for, unpredictable,
unreliable, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady,
unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, venturesome, venturous,
wicked, wildcat
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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