Related Searches
on Ask.com
risky - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | risky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, delicate, dicey*, endangered, hairy*, hazardous, iffy*, insecure, long shot*, out on a limb*, perilous, precarious, rocky*, sensitive, speculative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked, wide-open, fraught with danger, going for broke, hanging by a thread, jeopardous, not a prayer, off the deep end, on slippery ground, on the spot, on thin ice, playing with fire |
| Antonyms: | assured, certain, safe, sure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adventurous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | daring, risk-taking |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bold, brave, courageous, dangerous, daredevil, enterprising, foolhardy, hazardous, headstrong, intrepid, rash, reckless, risky, temerarious, venturesome, adventuresome, venturous |
| Notes: | adventurous may be predicated of both a person and an undertaking and implies a willingness to accept risks but not necessarily imprudence; adventuresome is predicated only of a person |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, prudent, unadventurous |
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, consumptive, corrupting, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, corroding, crippling, harassing, malefic, pestilential, undermining |
| Main Entry: | hazardous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, unpredictable |
| Synonyms: | chancy, dicey*, difficult, hairy*, haphazard, hot*, insecure, perilous, precarious, risky, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked, parlous |
| Antonyms: | certain, guarded, predictable, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inflammable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to burn |
| Synonyms: | combustible, dangerous, flammable, hazardous, incendiary, risky, unsafe, burnable, ignitable |
| Antonyms: | fire-proof, incombustible, non-flammable, non-inflammable |
| Main Entry: | mischievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | devilish, wicked |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foxy*, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, holy terror*, hurtful, ill, impish, injurious, insidious, irksome, malicious, malignant, naughty, nocuous, perilous, pernicious, playful, precarious, puckish, rascal, risky, rude, sinful, sly, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vicious, wayward, dickens, exasperating, ill-behaved, misbehaving, rascally, vexing |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, obedient, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perilous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, delicate, dicey*, dynamite, exposed, hairy*, hazardous, insecure, loaded, precarious, risky, rugged, shaky, threatening, ticklish, touchy, treacherous, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, vulnerable, wicked*, Russian roulette, on thin ice, playing with fire, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | safe, secure, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | precarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tricky, doubtful |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, dicey*, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hairy*, hazardous, iffy*, indecisive, insecure, loaded, open, out on a limb*, perilous, problematic, risky, rocky, rugged*, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure, hanging by a thread, impugnable, on thin ice, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, firm, stable, strong, sure, undoubted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | speculative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, analytical, assumed, dangerous, dicey, experimental, hairy, hazardous, hypothetical, ideal, iffy, intellectual, logical, philosophical, risky, uncertain, unsubstantiated, conceptive, formularized, idealized, ideological, in theory, notional, presumed, unproved, unproven |
| Main Entry: | ticklish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, tricky |
| Synonyms: | awkward, capricious, chancy, changeable, critical, dangerous, delicate, fickle, inconstant, mercurial, nice, precarious, risky, rocky, sensitive, temperamental, thorny, touchy, trying, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile |
| Antonyms: | easy, straightforward, unproblematic |
| Main Entry: | touchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily offended |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey*, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, irascible, irritable, jumpy*, mean, ornery*, peevish, petulant, precarious, querulous, quick-tempered, risky, sensitive, surly, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned*, ticklish*, tricky, unpredictable, unsafe, uptight*, volatile, bundle of nerves, crabbed, hypersensitive, oversensitive, perturbable, pettish, splenetic, wired up, wound up |
| Antonyms: | calm, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncertain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, changeable |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ambivalent, chancy, conjectural, dubious, erratic, fitful, hazy, hesitant, iffy*, incalculable, inconstant, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, insecure, irregular, irresolute, precarious, questionable, risky, speculative, unclear, undecided, undetermined, unforeseeable, unpredictable, unreliable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure, up in the air, vacillating, vague, variable, wavering, hanging by a thread, on thin ice, touch and go, unconfirmed, unfixed, up for grabs |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, definite, determined, secure, sure, unchanging, foreseeable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsafe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, chancy, erratic, explosive, hazardous, insecure, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, slippery, threatening, ticklish*, touchy*, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsound, unstable, untrustworthy, fearsome, hanging by a thread, on a limb, on thin ice, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | harmless, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unstable/unsteady |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, weak |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dizzy, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, mercurial, mobile, movable, moving, mutable, precarious, rickety, risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, shifty, slippery, suspect, temperamental, ticklish, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unsteady, untrustworthy, vacillating, variable, volatile, wavering, wobbly, fluctuating, lubricious, not fixed, teetering, weaving, wiggly |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, strong |
| Main Entry: | venturesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | courageous |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, aggressive, audacious, bold, brave, daredevil, daring, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutsy, intrepid, plucky, pushy, rash, reckless, resourceful, risky, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, sturdy, temerarious, overbold, venturous |
| Antonyms: | afraid, cowardly |
| Main Entry: | out on a limb |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | in trouble |
| Synonyms: | chancy, dangerous, exposed, liable, open, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, on the spot, up a tree |
| Main Entry: | unstable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dizzy, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, mercurial, mobile, movable, moving, mutable, precarious, rickety, risky, rocky, sensitive, shaky, shifty, slippery, suspect, temperamental, ticklish, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unsteady, untrustworthy, vacillating, variable, volatile, wavering, weak, wobbly, fluctuating, lubricious, not fixed, teetering, weaving, wiggly |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, strong |
| Main Entry: | audacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, daring |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky*, courageous, daredevil, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, intrepid, nervy, rash, resolute, risky, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, venturesome, aweless, gutty, smart ass, uncurbed, ungoverned |
| Antonyms: | cautious, gentle, humble, meek, mild, modest, reserved, timid, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desperate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, outrageous |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, audacious, bold, careless, dangerous, daring, determined, devil-may-care, foolhardy, frantic, frenzied, furious, hasty, hazardous, headlong, headstrong, heinous, impetuous, incautious, madcap, monstrous, precipitate, rash, risky, scandalous, shocking, venturesome, violent, wild, death-defying |
| Antonyms: | confident, content, satisfied, secure, unworried |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
