Risk [noun]

Definition of Risk:

chance taken

Synonyms of Risk:

● Prospect

● Peril

● Danger

● Uncertainty

● Possibility

● Liability

● Hazard

● Opportunity

● Exposure

● Fortuity

● Plunge

● Fortune

● Flyer

● Jeopardy

● Header

● Accident

● Stab

● Venture

● Openness

● Contingency

● Wager

● Speculation

● Gamble

● Luck

● Shot in the dark

● Exposedness

● Liableness


Opposite/Antonyms of Risk:

● Surety

● Sureness

● Truth

● Plan

● Certainty

● Security

● Reality

● Protection

● Misfortune

● Safety


Sentence/Example of Risk:

At the risk of overturning the machine he veered it sharply to the left.

And whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault.

When a woman loves a fierce man she takes the risk of his fierceness.

Then, while they wondered whether they might risk it, he got worse.

Go back and tell them it would take too great a risk to try to fix me.

Something to strive for we demand, even at the risk of bereavement.

As for that precocious damsel, she would run no least risk of destruction by the satyr.

Isn't it a wonder that we ever take the risk of having one ring in our ears forever?

"No need of running any risk," he explained to the still figure beside him.

One married, happily or not as the case might be, and took the risk.