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(adjective) involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"
sporting
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(adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
chancy, dodgy, chanceful, dicey
means
(adjective) 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"
high-risk, speculative, bad, risky
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(adjective) fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
parlous, perilous, touch-and-go, precarious
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(adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"
adventurous, adventuresome
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(adjective) subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
chancy, iffy, flukey, fluky
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