Risky
['rɪskɪ] or ['rɪski]
Definition
(a.) Attended with risk or danger; hazardous.
Typed by Elinor
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Colloquial, U. S.] Dangerous, hazardous, perilous, unsafe, full of risk.
Checked by Hillel
Examples
- For he was so unsure, so risky in the common world of day. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He said he would not at that time, because it would be risky and would not prove anything more than a journey over land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Too risky--they might hang a body. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No young lady in Miss Verinder's position could manage such a risky matter as that by herself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Editor: Marilyn