different between hazard vs risky

English

Etymology

From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), probably from Arabic ?????????? (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæz?d/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?haz?d/

Noun

hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)

1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation

     Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]

3. (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
4. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6. (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
7. Chance. [from 16th c.]
8. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
9. (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
10. (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

Synonyms

• (chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (chance of suffering harm): adventure
• (anything hazarded or risked): bet, pledge, skin in the game, wager

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hazard (third-person singular simple present hazards, present participle hazarding, simple past and past participle hazarded)

1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
   • a. 1676, John Clarke, Excuses of the Irreligious

     o be consistent , you ought to be a Chriftian in temper and practice ; for you hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     He hazards his neck to the halter.

2. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
   • They hazard to cut their feet.

   I'll hazard a guess.

Translations

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hasard, from Old French hasart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?azart/

Noun

hazard m

1. gambling
2. risk, gamble

Declension

References

French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

1. Archaic spelling of hasard, chiefly used before 1800

Italian

Noun

hazard m (invariable)

1. hazard lights (on a vehicle)

Middle French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

1. hazard; obstacle

Descendants

• French: hasard

Polish

Etymology

From French hasard, from Old French hasart, from Arabic ?????????? (az-zahr, “the dice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.zart/

Noun

hazard m inan

1. (singular only) gambling
2. (electronics) race condition

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French hasard.

Noun

hazard n (plural hazarduri)

1. hazard

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?zard/
• Hyphenation: ha?zard

Noun

hàzard m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. gamble, gambling
2. risk, hazard

Declension

English

Etymology

risk +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ski/
• Rhymes: -?ski

Adjective

risky (comparative riskier, superlative riskiest)

1. Dangerous, involving risks.

   Investing in this start-up company could be risky.

2. Misspelling of risqué.
   • 2012, Marlize Schmidt, That Awkward Moment..., Lulu Press, Inc (?ISBN)

     That awkward moment when someone doesn't reply to your risky text message.

   • 1889, Charles Leonard Moore, Banquet of Palacios: A Comedy, page 157:

     Have you no risky songs , no indecent ballads?

   • 2020, B. Barrett-Lennard, Mind Control Through the Mass Media: Transmission of the Politics of Inequality, B. Barrett-Lennard (?ISBN)

     Ronald Frankau (pronounced Franco) wrote a few risky songs, such as FANNY'S BEEN EVACUATED NOW with the line “and for half a pound of butter, well a lady's got to eat” ~ he got banned for it.

Synonyms

• hazardous, dangerous, perilous

Antonyms

• riskless, safe, secure

Related terms

• risk
• riskily
• riskiness
• risqué

Translations

Anagrams

• yirks