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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. involving risk or danger;
- Example: "skydiving is a hazardous sport"
- Example: "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"
- Example: "a wild financial scheme"
[syn: hazardous, risky, wild]

2. not financially safe or secure;
- Example: "a bad investment"
- Example: "high risk investments"
- Example: "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"
- Example: "speculative business enterprises"
[syn: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Risky \Risk"y\, a. Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter." --W. Collins. [1913 Webster] Generalization are always risky. --Lowell. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

risky adj 1: involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme" [syn: hazardous, risky, wild] 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, risky, high-risk, speculative]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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