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RISKY
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Irregular inflected forms: riskier , riskiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving risk or danger
Example:
a wild financial scheme
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
dangerous; unsafe (involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm)
Derivation:
risk (a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury)
risk (a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune)
riskiness (a state of danger involving risk)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not financially safe or secure
Example:
speculative business enterprises
Synonyms:
bad; high-risk; risky; speculative
Classified under:
Similar:
unsound (not sound financially)
Derivation:
risk (a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury)
riskiness (a state of danger involving risk)
Context examples:
But doing so might be a risky expedition.
(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The only current treatment for stenosis is valve replacement, which typically requires risky and expensive open-heart surgery.
(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Other conditions that can make pregnancy risky can happen while you are pregnant - for example, gestational diabetes and Rh incompatibility.
(Health Problems in Pregnancy, NIH)
As explained by Laura Miccoli, main author of this study, adolescence, typically associated with greater body dissatisfaction, is a key stage for the development of risky eating behaviors, related both to uncontrolled restrictions on food intake –which may lead to to the development of eating disorders– and with the stabilization of overweight and obesity.
(Obesity and food restrictions proven to be associated with less food enjoyment, University of Granada)
It is safe for you to take a job when Mercury is retrograde if you have been out of work a long time—it’s too risky not to do so.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Mercury will be retrograde only until March 9, but it is too risky to sign contracts too close to that end date.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
