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risky
Synonyms and Antonyms of risky
involving potential loss or injury
dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain
distressing, sickening, unpleasant
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent
deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous
Synonym Discussion of risky
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- soldiers on a dangerous mission
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- claims that smoking is hazardous to your health
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- earned a precarious living by gambling
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- perilous mountain roads
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- shied away from risky investments
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