dicey
/ˈdʌɪsi
/adjective (dicier, diciest) informal
Unpredictable and potentially dangerous: democracy is a dicey business...
- Lots of people write to ask about detecting the subtle signs of a potentially dicey relationship.
- Talking politics is dicey business, particularly with somebody you don't know.
- Keeping your personal relationship on even keel during this emotionally dicey period could prove difficult.
Synonyms
risky, uncertain, unpredictable, touch-and-go, precarious, unsafe, dangerous, perilous, high-risk, hazardous, fraught with danger;
tricky, ticklish, delicate, difficult, awkward, thorny, problematical, problematic;
Scottish unchancy
informal chancy, hairy, sticky, iffy
British informal dodgy
North American informal gnarly
archaic or humorous parlous
Rhymes
- hi-tech
- Hite, Shere
- hithe
- hither
- hither and thither (also hither and yon)
- hither and yon
- hitherto
- hitherward
- hit home
- hit it off
- Hitler, Adolf
- Hitlerian
- Hitlerism
- Hitlerite
- Hitler moustache
- Hitler salute
- hit list
- hitmaker
- hitman
- hit on
- hit (or make) the scene
- hit-or-miss
- hit (or strike) home
- hit-out
- hit parade