risky

comparative riskier · superlative riskiest

1. Dangerous; involving risks.

   Investing in this start-up company could be risky.

   2 more examples

   Near-synonyms: hazardous, dangerous, perilous, unsafe, daredevil

   Jumping on the train from the bridge to catch the terrorist was a highly risky operation.

   Synonyms: risksome, chancy, venturesome, touch-and-go, adventurous, hazardous, dangerous, perilous · Antonyms: riskless, risk-free, riskproof, unrisky, nonrisky, safe, secure

2. obsoleteRisqué.

   Have you no risky songs, no indecent ballads?

   1889, Charles Leonard Moore, Banquet of Palacios: A Comedy, page 157

3. misspellingMisspelling of risqué.

   That awkward moment when someone doesn't reply to your risky text message.

   2012, Marlize Schmidt, That Awkward Moment..., Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN

   1 more example

   Ronald Frankau (pronounced Franco) wrote a few risky songs, such as FANNY'S BEEN EVACUATED NOW with the line “and for half a pound of butter, well a lady's got to eat” ~ he got banned for it.

   2020, B. Barrett-Lennard, Mind Control Through the Mass Media: Transmission of the Politics of Inequality, B. Barrett-Lennard, →ISBN