risky

from WordNet (r) 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}]

from 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]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "risky":
      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