What are some alternative words for risky?
Synonyms for risky
ˈrɪs ki
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term risky.
Princeton's WordNet
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"
Synonyms:
furious, waste, wild, dotty, savage, barbarian, bad, speculative, baseless, violent, untamed, idle, hazardous, uncivilised, fantastic, raving mad, raging, groundless, angry, barbaric, crazy, godforsaken, unfounded, high-risk, tempestuous, uncivilized, gaga, unwarrantedbad, 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:
big, spoiled, uncollectible, questioning, bad, speculative, regretful, hazardous, forged, defective, inquisitive, sorry, tough, spoilt, unsound, wondering(a), high-risk, unfit, wild, notional
Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, unsteadyAntonyms:
actual, assured, certain, firm, immutable, incontestable, infallible, real, settled, stable, steady, strong, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unquestionable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
risky(a.)
Synonyms:
[colloquial, U. S.] dangerous, hazardous, perilous, unsafe, full of risk
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
risky(a)
Synonyms:
hazardous, unsafe, perilous, jeopardous, dangerous, precarious
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#330 | big | |
#841 | bad | |
#876 | risk | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2028 | wild | |
#2263 | sorry | |
#3304 | crazy | |
#4089 | fantastic | |
#4178 | dangerous | |
#4924 | tough | |
#5700 | hazardous | |
#5940 | violent | |
#6547 | angry | |
#9013 | idle | |
#9792 | savage | |
#10488 | unstable | |
#11273 | defective | |
#11666 | uncertain | |
#13327 | questioning | |
#15510 | forged | |
#15665 | risky | |
#16835 | furious | |
#16845 | unsafe | |
#18847 | raging | |
#20066 | doubtful | |
#20069 | insecure | |
#20140 | speculative | |
#21584 | spoiled | |
#23071 | dubious | |
#26177 | barbarian | |
#29642 | unfit | |
#36686 | unfounded | |
#37328 | precarious | |
#37717 | unwarranted | |
#38566 | perilous | |
#39207 | notional | |
#40835 | unsettled | |
#43810 | barbaric | |
#47076 | inquisitive | |
#49479 | unsteady | |
#50756 | spoilt | |
#51788 | untamed | |
#53805 | unsound | |
#60134 | baseless | |
#61305 | dotty | |
#61739 | gaga | |
#70807 | equivocal | |
#75645 | dicey | |
#84338 | groundless | |
#93066 | uncollectible | |
#102327 | uncivilized | |
#106455 | tempestuous | |
#134051 | regretful | |
#162789 | godforsaken | |
#236180 | uncivilised |
How to use risky in a sentence?
Mr. Erdogan has compared the risks of nuclear stations with watching TV and said both are risky. I agree with the risks of wathcing TV, especially when he is on TV. (On prime minister Erdogan's quote of "people are saying nuclear stations are risky, then don't you use computers or watch TV as they also emit radiation?")
Mothers redirected adolescents' sense of reward away from risky choices and towards safe choices, in other words, it feels good to play it safe when mom is there, whereas it feels good to be risky when alone.
This is a risky ask, when you ask someone to make a video that criticizes ISIS or some other terrorist group, that's a lot to ask because you're asking them to put themselves out there and put themselves potentially in harm's way and no one wants to attract the ire of a terrorist group like ISIS, i never really found there to be a risk in it because I'm Muslim anyways.
We've tried to solve that problem by creating Gemini, which allows you to engage with crypto in a regulated compliant trusted way, we're trying to make it easy to onboard because our own experience in the space was very difficult, scary, and risky, and we've spent the last five years trying to mitigate that.
Men are using the supplements in a way that is risky both to their physical health and their health in terms of relationships and their own emotional wellbeing, it is an expression, or variance, of eating disorder behavior in these men.
Translations for risky
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- riscós, arriscatCatalan, Valencian
- nebezpečný, riskantníCzech
- riskantGerman
- arriesgado, riesgosoSpanish
- riskaabeli, vaarallinenFinnish
- risquéFrench
- kockázatosHungarian
- 危険Japanese
- ಅಪಾಯಕಾರಿKannada
- gewaagd, riskantDutch
- arriscadoPortuguese
- рискованныйRussian
- ри̏зичан, rȉzičanSerbo-Croatian
- riskfylld, riskabelSwedish
- riskliTurkish
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