Synonyms for Risky:

• adj.

  •adventurous (adjective)
  • daredevil,
  • headstrong,
  • risky,
  • temerarious,
  • foolhardy,
  • enterprising,
  • adventuresome,
  • venturous,
  • intrepid,
  • head-strong,
  • courageous,
  • reckless,
  • rash.
  •audacious (adjective)
  • fearless,
  • dauntless,
  • resolute,
  • valiant,
  • unafraid,
  • undaunted,
  • ungoverned,
  • nervy,
  • brassy.
  •awkward (adjective)
  • bulky,
  • annoying,
  • disagreeable,
  • uncomfortable,
  • unmanageable,
  • inconvenient,
  • cramped,
  • incommodious,
  • unwieldy,
  • cumbersome,
  • troublesome.
  •chancy (adjective)
  • accidental,
  • random,
  • aimless,
  • haphazard,
  • causeless,
  • fluky,
  • potluck,
  • coin toss,
  • lucky,
  • hit-or-miss.
  •courageous (adjective)
  • venturesome.
  •critical (adjective)
  • consequential,
  • dire,
  • deciding,
  • all-important,
  • momentous,
  • crucial,
  • grave,
  • decisive,
  • urgent,
  • integral,
  • Exceptive,
  • determinative,
  • significant,
  • conclusive,
  • pressing,
  • serious,
  • high-priority,
  • strategic,
  • pivotal,
  • climacteric,
  • vital,
  • acute,
  • weighty.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • impregnable,
  • alarming,
  • treacherous,
  • portentous,
  • queasy,
  • thorny,
  • threatening,
  • menacing,
  • formidable,
  • serpentine,
  • dangersome,
  • breakneck,
  • insecure,
  • ominous,
  • unsafe,
  • malignant,
  • shaky,
  • dynamite,
  • vulnerable,
  • exposed,
  • bad,
  • on collision course,
  • perilous,
  • Viperous,
  • impending,
  • loaded,
  • Jeopardous.
  •desperate (adjective)
  • devil-may-care,
  • shocking,
  • incautious,
  • determined,
  • scandalous,
  • heinous,
  • frenzied,
  • atrocious,
  • furious,
  • violent,
  • monstrous,
  • daring,
  • precipitate,
  • frantic,
  • careless,
  • impetuous,
  • hasty,
  • wild,
  • madcap,
  • headlong.
  •hairy (adjective)
  • scary,
  • scarier,
  • difficult.
  •harmful (adjective)
  • malicious,
  • baleful,
  • pestilential,
  • sinister,
  • incendiary,
  • corroding,
  • painful,
  • virulent,
  • toxic,
  • mischievous,
  • corrupting,
  • evil,
  • subversive,
  • malefic,
  • consumptive,
  • sinful,
  • Harassing,
  • pestiferous,
  • undermining,
  • disadvantageous,
  • Nocuous,
  • crippling,
  • internecine,
  • unwholesome,
  • murderous,
  • baneful.
  •illegal (adjective)
  • wildcat.
  •inflammable (adjective)
  • in-flammable,
  • most burnable,
  • in flammable,
  • ignitable,
  • most ignitable,
  • more burnable,
  • more ignitable.
  •mischievous (adjective)
  • mis behaving,
  • holy terror,
  • most ill-behaved,
  • more rascal,
  • more rascally,
  • most exasperating,
  • most ill behaved,
  • more ill behaved,
  • ill behaved,
  • more vexing,
  • more illbehaved,
  • teasing,
  • mis-behaving,
  • more ill-behaved,
  • most illbehaved,
  • more exasperating,
  • most dickens,
  • ex asperating,
  • most misbehaving,
  • ex-asperating,
  • impish,
  • most rascally,
  • more misbehaving,
  • most vexing,
  • illbehaved,
  • more dickens,
  • most rascal.
  •perilous (adjective)
  • un sure,
  • un-sure,
  • touch go.
  •precarious (adjective)
  • in decisive,
  • impugnable,
  • most impugnable,
  • un settled,
  • un-reliable,
  • pre-carious,
  • in-decisive,
  • pre carious,
  • un-settled,
  • more impugnable,
  • un reliable.
  •speculative (adjective)
  • un proved,
  • more ideological,
  • more idealized,
  • un substantiated,
  • un-proven,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • most conceptive,
  • most idealized,
  • most presumed,
  • un-substantiated,
  • un-proved,
  • most formularized,
  • hypo thetical,
  • more presumed,
  • most unproven,
  • formularized,
  • most ideological,
  • more conceptive,
  • more unproven,
  • un proven,
  • more formularized.
  •ticklish (adjective)
  • in-constant.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • more perturbable,
  • most perturbable,
  • bad tempered,
  • over sensitive,
  • most pettish,
  • wired up,
  • badtempered,
  • up tight,
  • most splenetic,
  • up-tight,
  • hyper-sensitive,
  • bundle nerves,
  • thinskinned,
  • thin skinned,
  • more pettish,
  • quicktempered,
  • most hypersensitive,
  • un-predictable,
  • oversensitive,
  • hyper sensitive,
  • un predictable,
  • more hypersensitive,
  • over-sensitive,
  • most oversensitive,
  • more oversensitive.
  •treacherous (adjective)
  • mis-leading,
  • un-dependable,
  • mis leading,
  • most dissembled,
  • more dissembled,
  • un dependable.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • quirky.
  •uncertain (adjective)
  • unfixed,
  • up for grabs.
  •unsafe (adjective)
  • ex plosive,
  • fearsome,
  • un safe,
  • un-safer,
  • un-safest,
  • un safest,
  • ex-plosive,
  • un safer,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • on limb,
  • un-safe.
  •unstable (adjective)
  • un stable,
  • un-stable.
  •unstable/unsteady (adjective)
  • more fluctuating,
  • unsteadiest,
  • un-steady,
  • in-consistent,
  • wigglier,
  • un stabler,
  • un stablest,
  • un-stablest,
  • in consistent,
  • wiggliest,
  • un steadier,
  • more teetering,
  • more weaving,
  • un-steadiest,
  • most teetering,
  • un-stabler,
  • un steady,
  • un steadiest,
  • most weaving,
  • mutable,
  • Teetering,
  • un-steadier.
  •venturesome (adjective)
  • overbold.

• adv.

  •out on a limb (adverb)
  • out a limb,
  • out limb,
  • on spot,
  • up tree.

• n.

  •
  • brave,
  • do-or-die,
  • bold,
  • at your own risk.
  •
  • hairy,
  • safety.
  •high-risk (noun)
  • high-risk.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • sketchy,
  • lunatic,
  • noxious,
  • undesirable,
  • dicey,
  • lethal,
  • overactive,
  • kamikaze,
  • touch-and-go,
  • mortally,
  • destructive,
  • adverse,
  • insidious,
  • dangerously,
  • inimical,
  • marauding,
  • perilously,
  • injurious,
  • suicidal,
  • prejudicial,
  • ruinous,
  • pernicious,
  • malign,
  • damaging,
  • cataclysmic,
  • combustible,
  • deleterious,
  • calamitous,
  • disastrous,
  • wanton,
  • detrimental.
  •
  • convulsive,
  • ill,
  • devastating,
  • glowering,
  • sticky,
  • deadly,
  • hostile,
  • ferocious,
  • catastrophic,
  • poisonous,
  • parlous,
  • chancy.
  •
  • mortal,
  • terrible,
  • fatal,
  • explosive,
  • volatile,
  • seriously,
  • suspect.
  •
  • nasty.
  •
  • negative.
  •
  • hot.
  •Other relevant words:
  • fantastic,
  • adventitious,
  • broad,
  • Riskful,
  • savage,
  • frightening,
  • spoilt,
  • uncivilized,
  • unforeseen,
  • life-threatening,
  • long shot,
  • infirm,
  • hair-raising,
  • on slippery ground,
  • knotty,
  • impudent,
  • tentative,
  • spoiled,
  • nonstandard,
  • grievous,
  • debatable,
  • slippery,
  • Jeopardizing,
  • notional,
  • barbarian,
  • wide-open,
  • barbaric,
  • unwarranted,
  • Unsolid,
  • hanging by a thread,
  • unsteady,
  • angry,
  • tight,
  • unforeseeable,
  • shifty,
  • unexpected,
  • brash,
  • salty,
  • rickety,
  • unsubstantial,
  • intimidating,
  • endangered,
  • iffy,
  • minatory,
  • lowering,
  • susceptible,
  • untested,
  • waste,
  • unreliable,
  • undetermined,
  • dickey,
  • provisional,
  • indeterminate,
  • trying,
  • equivocal,
  • defective,
  • insubstantial,
  • fatidic,
  • gaga,
  • questioning,
  • regretful,
  • baseless,
  • Involving,
  • big,
  • complex,
  • scabrous,
  • risque,
  • close,
  • wicked,
  • raging,
  • worrying,
  • casual,
  • louring,
  • shifting,
  • unsettled,
  • idle,
  • showing curiosity,
  • sporting,
  • terrifying,
  • untamed,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • forged,
  • contingent,
  • unassured,
  • unconfirmed,
  • inquisitive,
  • complicated,
  • unfounded,
  • uncaused,
  • Unsteadfast,
  • nerve-racking,
  • immoral,
  • off the deep end,
  • unfit,
  • blue,
  • rocky,
  • unsound,
  • shady,
  • unproved,
  • delicate,
  • wondering,
  • tough,
  • fraught with danger,
  • minacious,
  • uncivilised,
  • dotty,
  • hairbreadth,
  • spicy,
  • godforsaken,
  • in the balance,
  • Looming,
  • not a prayer,
  • desultory,
  • undependable,
  • going for broke,
  • fortuitous,
  • game,
  • off-color,
  • doubtful,
  • groundless,
  • uncollectible,
  • aleatory,
  • tempestuous,
  • unpredictable,
  • Destinal,
  • Chancey,
  • dicky,
  • dubious,
  • sorry,
  • fragile,
  • questionable,
  • incidental,
  • racy,
  • untrustworthy,
  • crazy,
  • temporary,
  • sensitive,
  • unlooked-for,
  • suggestive,
  • problematic,
  • tottery,
  • unsure.

Paraphrases for Risky:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    perilous, unsafe, dangerous.
  • Proper noun, singular
    dangerous.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    risk, Risks.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    adventurous, reckless, haphazard, dodgy, risk-bearing, harmful, uncertain, insecure, daring, problematic, random, life-threatening, Risks.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    high-risk, risk-taking, precarious, dicey, sub-prime, low-risk, risk, subprime, treacherous, higher-risk.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    risk.

Antonyms for Risky:

• adj.

  • adventurous
    cautious, prudent, careful, unadventurous.
  • audacious
    gentle, yielding, mild, modest, humble, timid, meek, reserved.
  • awkward
    easy, straightforward, convenient.
  • critical
    uncritical, unimportant, trivial.
  • dangerous
    secure, unhazardous, guarded, untroubled.
  • desperate
    content, satisfied, confident, unworried.
  • hairy
    calm.
  • hazardous
    predictable, protected.
  • risky
    safe, sure.
  • Other antonyms:
    steady, good, firm, undeniable, unquestionable, assured, infallible, nonhazardous, sound, unthreatening, undoubted, real, advantageous, immutable, stable, actual, settled, beneficial, incontestable, strong, certain.

Homophones for Risky:

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