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Synonyms for risky
Synonyms for risky: bad and wild. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for risky
Interchangeable with risky in this sense
Audited under risky's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one risky carries in that sense.
- badadjective, in the sense "not financially safe or secure"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name risky as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- wildwild is an adjective in the sense "involving risk or danger"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under risky and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
not financially safe or secure
Lending money to that company is a risky investment.
The true synonym
bad
Same sentence, swapped: Lending money to that company is a bad investment.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where risky stands in the sentence above.
- fatal
- unexpected
- temporary
Where risky turns up in the game
risky is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where risky is the trap
- insufficientadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is inadequate, in the sense "not enough in amount to meet a need", so risky is there to be ruled out.
- fataladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fateful, in the sense "controlled or decreed by fate", and risky is one of the three tiles that lose.
- racyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is lively, in the sense "full of zest or vigor", with risky sitting one tile away.
- temporaryadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is irregular, in the sense "lacking continuity or regularity", so risky is there to be ruled out.
Play risky
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so risky reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because actions is the company risky keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
risky is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.