high-risk

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsbadriskyspeculative

   Similarunsound

Questions about high-risk

What does high-risk mean?

high-risk means "not financially safe or secure".

How many syllables are in high-risk?

high-risk has 2 syllables: high--risk. The stress falls on "high-".

What is another word for high-risk?

Close synonyms include bad, risky, speculative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high-risk a common word?

high-risk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.