Synonyms for risky
ˈrɪs ki

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1. hazardous, risky, wild(adj)

   involving risk or danger

   "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme"

2. bad, risky, high-risk, speculative(adj)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   speaker, verbaliser, talker, verbalizer, vocaliser, vocalizer

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1. risky(adjective)

   Synonyms:
   dangerous, hazardous, perilous

   Antonyms:
   safe, riskless

2. risky(adjective)

   Dangerous, involving risks.

   Investing in this start-up company could be risky.

   Synonyms:
   hazardous, dangerous, perilous

   Antonyms:
   safe, riskless

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1. risky

   Uncertain is applied to things that human knowledge can not certainly determine or that human power can not certainly control; precarious originally meant dependent on the will of another, and now, by extension of meaning, dependent on chance or hazard, with manifest unfavorable possibility verging toward probability; as, one holds office by a precarious tenure, or land by a precarious title; the strong man's hold on life is uncertain, the invalid's is precarious.

   Synonyms:
   doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hazardous, insecure, perilous, precarious, unassured, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady

   Antonyms:
   actual, assured, certain, firm, immutable, incontestable, infallible, real, settled, stable, steady, strong, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unquestionable

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1. risky(a.)

   Synonyms:
   [colloquial, U. S.] dangerous, hazardous, perilous, unsafe, full of risk

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1. risky(a)

   Synonyms:
   hazardous, unsafe, perilous, jeopardous, dangerous, precarious

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1. List of paraphrases for "risky":

   dangerous, dicey, hazardous, high-risk, perilous, at-risk, unsafe, risk

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1. Tim Bale:

   Resignation honors lists are always risky, the purpose of them is very personal. There's the extent to which the ex-prime minister's friends are going to be at a huge advantage over those who were of less importance and less value.

2. Mario Montejo:

   They are in good health, a little tired. The rafts were beginning to deteriorate and that made the stay of the people on board risky.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   It’s not just a risky strategy, it's the wrong strategy and it's going to fail.

4. Zhang Gang:

   Investors must note that those leading shares can be very risky if corporate fundamentals cannot match price surges in a brief period, and such mismatch is often the case.

5. Daniel Brooks:

   The last thing that we want right now is to inundate our emergency departments with patients who believe they found a vague and risky solution that could potentially jeopardize their health.

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