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risky

adj
/ˈɹɪski/

Etymology

From risk + -y.

  1. derived from *lewk-✻
  2. derived from ܪܙܩܐ — “daily ration”
  3. derived from رِزْق — “sustenance, that which God allots”
  4. derived from ῥιζικό — “sustenance obtained by a soldier through his own initiative, fortune”
  5. derived from ῥιζικόν
  6. derived from resecō
  7. derived from *resecum✻
  8. derived from risco — “risk”
  9. borrowed from risque
  10. suffixed as risky — “risk + y”

Definitions

  1. Dangerous

    Dangerous; involving risks.

    • Near-synonyms: hazardous, dangerous, perilous, unsafe, daredevil
    • Investing in this start-up company could be risky.
    • Jumping on the train from the bridge to catch the terrorist was a highly risky operation.

  2. Risqué.

    • Have you no risky songs, no indecent ballads?

  3. Misspelling of risqué.

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

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Derived

nonrisky, riskily, riskiness, ultrarisky, unrisky

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at risky. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at risky. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at risky

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA