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Found 3 hits - Term: risky, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : 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

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
hazardous venturesome venturous bad insecure high-risk 
speculative riskiest riskier 
[3] : 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





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