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Pronunciation:
[ ɹˈɪski], [ ɹˈɪski], [ ɹ_ˈɪ_s_k_i]
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Similar words for risky:
- adventurous (adjective)
- audacious (adjective)
- awkward (adjective)
- chancy (adjective)
- courageous (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- desperate (adjective)
- hairy (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- illegal (adjective)
- inflammable (adjective)
- mischievous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- perilous (adjective)
- precarious (adjective)
- speculative (adjective)
- ticklish (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- treacherous (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- uncertain (adjective)
- unsafe (adjective)
- unstable (adjective)
- unstable/unsteady (adjective)
- venturesome (adjective)
- out on a limb (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- high-risk (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Risky:
adj.
• adventurous (adjective)- daredevil,
- headstrong,
- risky,
- temerarious,
- foolhardy,
- enterprising,
- adventuresome,
- venturous,
- intrepid,
- head-strong,
- courageous,
- reckless,
- rash.
- bulky,
- annoying,
- disagreeable,
- uncomfortable,
- unmanageable,
- inconvenient,
- cramped,
- incommodious,
- unwieldy,
- cumbersome,
- troublesome.
- 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.
- 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.
- devil-may-care,
- shocking,
- incautious,
- determined,
- scandalous,
- heinous,
- frenzied,
- atrocious,
- furious,
- violent,
- monstrous,
- daring,
- precipitate,
- frantic,
- careless,
- impetuous,
- hasty,
- wild,
- madcap,
- headlong.
- 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.
- in-flammable,
- most burnable,
- in flammable,
- ignitable,
- most ignitable,
- more burnable,
- more ignitable.
- 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.
- critical,
- ill-behaved,
- desperate,
- precarious,
- touchy,
- inflammable,
- conceptive,
- uncertain,
- in theory,
- tottering,
- on a limb,
- tricky,
- unhealthy,
- pettish,
- dickens,
- hypersensitive,
- adventurous,
- uncurbed,
- rascally,
- ticklish,
- Unhandy,
- Discommodious,
- wiggly,
- hanging by thread,
- speculative,
- playing with fire,
- Gutty,
- smart ass,
- unstable,
- bundle of nerves,
- unproven,
- Perturbable,
- hard use,
- touch and go,
- hard to use,
- harmful,
- on thin ice,
- awkward,
- dangerous,
- dodgy,
- audacious,
- death-defying,
- not fixed,
- ideological,
- hazardous,
- aweless,
- burnable.
- in decisive,
- impugnable,
- most impugnable,
- un settled,
- un-reliable,
- pre-carious,
- in-decisive,
- pre carious,
- un-settled,
- more impugnable,
- un reliable.
- 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.
- 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.
- ex plosive,
- fearsome,
- un safe,
- un-safer,
- un-safest,
- un safest,
- ex-plosive,
- un safer,
- un-trustworthy,
- on limb,
- un-safe.
adv.
• out on a limb (adverb)adv
• Other relevant words: (adverb)n.
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- brave,
- do-or-die,
- bold,
- at your own risk.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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•
- convulsive,
- ill,
- devastating,
- glowering,
- sticky,
- deadly,
- hostile,
- ferocious,
- catastrophic,
- poisonous,
- parlous,
- chancy.
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- nasty.
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•
- negative.
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- hot.
- 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:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
dangerous.
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Proper noun, singular
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Forward Entailment
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Independent
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Adjective
adventurous, daring, dodgy, haphazard, harmful, insecure, problematic, random, reckless, uncertain, life-threatening, Risks, risk-bearing.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
dicey, high-risk, precarious, risk, treacherous, subprime, sub-prime, risk-taking, low-risk, higher-risk.
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Noun, singular or mass
risk.
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Adjective
Homophones for Risky:
- re-echo, reach, rocky, raze, rococo, rosy, ross, rich, risque, rescue, reecho, roux, russia, rehouse, rug, reseau, rework, rough-house, roseau, ricksha, ras, rig, racy, reissue, rouge, rage, recess, razz, RG, recuse, rosacea, rosa, rough-hew, rough, rockies, rusk, race, reccy, roughish, rake, rickey, rousseau, riches, resew, rase, rask, rouse, rockchuck, roguish, rash, reuse, rag, reich, rehash, reggae, rhesus, rock cake, rhus, rico, ruse, ruck, rajah, roccus, roughage, rosaceous, ruckus, rise, rogue, recco, rous, r.c., res, rosaceae, rehearse, rose, reek, raceway, riga, rioja, roach, resh, rush away, re-argue, ragee, rick, rugose, rhexia, rucksack, rissa, row house, rakish, roughhouse, rack, rush, ragi, ross sea, reassess, rice, raree-show, raise, roc, rookie, risk, rock, ruga, ruscaceae, rachis, rook, Rus, Reyes, rickshaw, rorschach, ruscus, rejoice, raj, rag week, rushy, rye whiskey, Rex, rejig, rachischisis, rye whisky, raucous, recce, rose acacia, risc, Rya Rug, resize, richea, ragusa, raja.
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