Risky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Risky \Risk"y\, a.
     Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter."
     --W. Collins.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Generalization are always risky.         --Lowell.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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