| 单词 | dicey |
| 释义 | dicey (once / 13857 pages) adj Something that's dicey is unpredictable — and it may even be risky or downright dangerous. Bringing up controversial subjects like politics at Thanksgiving dinner with your relatives can be dicey. If you fix your motorcycle yourself, you may feel like it's a pretty dicey vehicle for riding on the highway, and when you're not at all sure how you did on your biology final, you might say, "Phew, that was dicey." Dicey is an informal word that comes from the idea of the unknown outcome of "a roll of the dice," from aviator's jargon around 1940. WORD FAMILYdicey: dicier, diciest USAGE EXAMPLESIn retaliation the next day, townsfolk launched a dicey gambit. Los Angeles Times(Dec 17, 2016) State transportation officials say driving conditions will be dicey in some parts of Arizona as a Pacific winter storm crosses the state. Washington Times(Dec 16, 2016) But a new study suggests they both share one trait: As the clock ticks, their decisions get dicey. Science Magazine(Dec 02, 2016) adj of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker Syn chanceful, chancy, dodgy dangerous, unsafe involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm |
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