risky Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite involving risk or danger
    wild; hazardous.
    • skydiving is a hazardous sport
    • extremely risky going out in the tide and fog
    • a wild financial scheme
  2. adjective satellite not financially safe or secure
    speculative; bad; high-risk.
    • a bad investment
    • high risk investments
    • anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky
    • speculative business enterprises

WordNet


Risk"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter." W. Collins.
    Generalization are always risky. Lowell.

Webster 1913