Synonyms for high-risk
high-risk

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1. bad, risky, high-risk, speculativeadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   big, spoiled, uncollectible, risky, questioning, bad, speculative, regretful, hazardous, forged, defective, inquisitive, sorry, tough, spoilt, unsound, wondering(a), unfit, wild, notional

   Antonyms:
   sound

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1. perilous

   the meaning is similar to high-risk's.

   exposed to a danger

   Submitted by rinat on June 6, 2017  

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.5 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "high-risk":

   higher-risk, risky, at-risk, sub-prime

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1. Jesse Couk:

   We really need more than 90 % of people to be wearing a mask in high risk situation like being indoors in public or in crowds outdoors, so, we know our cases are going up we know our hospitalizations are increasing.

2. Kim Kardashian:

   Right after delivery, the placenta usually then comes out. Kim Kardashian did not, my placenta stayed attached inside my uterus, which is a condition called placenta accreta. This is a high-risk condition that happens when the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall.

3. Thor Eells:

   When you think about it, making entry -- announced or unannounced -- is very high risk, you're going through a' fatal funnel,' where the bad guy could fire rounds blindly at a doorway and have a chance of hitting us. If we don't have to go through, we don't want to. Who benefits from making an entry ? The answer is the bad guy. So we'd say, that's a tactically unsound decision.

4. Jason Kindrachuk:

   We already have issues in high-income regions of trying to get vaccines rolled out in areas that bought millions of doses and trying to figure out : how do we actually target people that are high risk versus those that maybe don't fall politically within that sphere of high-risk disease ? then you start looking at more middle - or low-income areas of the world -- they're not even at a point of being able to think about what the vaccine rollout is going to look like because of the logistical concerns, storage concerns and the fact that the majority of doses have already been bought up by the wealthiest countries in the world.

5. Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley:

   The silence by players and the league allow violence to continue, particularly in high risk all-male groups where group loyalty is engrained, instead the league should empower players to speak out as active bystanders and allies in the prevention of violence.