Adjective: risky
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | riskier |
| Superlative | riskiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: hazardous, dangerous, perilous, unsafe, daredevil
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Investing in this start-up company could be risky.
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Jumping on the train from the bridge to catch the terrorist was a highly risky operation.
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Have you no risky songs, no indecent ballads? [1889, Charles Leonard Moore, Banquet of Palacios: A Comedy, page 157:]
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That awkward moment when someone doesn't reply to your risky text message. [2012, Marlize Schmidt, That Awkward Moment..., Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:]
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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. [2020, B. Barrett-Lennard, Mind Control Through the Mass Media: Transmission of the Politics of Inequality, B. Barrett-Lennard, →ISBN:]
Adjectives inflected like risky
syrupy,
seemly,
seggsy,
snuffy,
snippy,
snitty,
sniffy,
snotty,
snouty,
snobby,
snoozy,
snooty,
snazzy,
snappy,
snarky,
snarly,
snassy,
snaily,
snacky,
snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Italic *wre-
3. Latin re-
4. Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
5. Proto-Italic *sekaō
6. Latin seco
7. Latin resecōdeverb.
8. Vulgar Latin *resecum
9. Old Italian riscobor.
10. ▲
11. Old Italian risco
12. Italian rischio
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
15. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
16. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
17. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
18. Proto-Italic *-ājō
19. Proto-Italic *-āō
20. Latin -ō
21. Italian -are
22. Italian rischiarebor.
23. Middle French risquebor.
24. English risque
25. English risk
26. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
27. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
28. Proto-West Germanic *-g
29. Old English -iġ
30. Middle English -y
31. English -y
32. English risky
33. From risk + -y.