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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for risky:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

risky
    adj 1: involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous
           sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog";
           "a wild financial scheme" [syn: hazardous, risky,
           wild]
    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, risky, high-risk, speculative]

2. 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]

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