chancy
3
6.9
- adjective
- /ˈtʃæn.si/
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- Choosing to travel during a global pandemic is chancy and could expose you to health risks.
- too chancy
- very chancy
- chancy business
Examples
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Investing in stocks can be a chancy endeavor, especially during economic downturns.
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Red could try to take him out, but that was chancy.
Fiction book (2001) -
Rebellion is a very chancy business, and they hang the losers, you know.
Blog text (4) -
P91 It was probably a chancy step to take.
Fiction book (1999) -
No, Nate, it's too chancy.
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Anyway, it's the only thing I do really well, besides handicap horses, and that's much too chancy to count on for a living.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Inheritance is a chancy thing," Naydra remarked mildly.
Fiction book (1992) -
Starting a new business is a chancy move that requires a lot of careful planning.
Synonyms
269
3.6
Likely to cause loss, harm, or danger
163
4.4
Likely to change suddenly and hard to know in advance
30
8.5
Likely to be risky or dangerous because the outcome is uncertain
26
8.1
Not certain or reliable
13
8.2
Likely to be unsafe or untrustworthy
3
6.9
Sometimes works well and sometimes fails depending on luck
1
9.9
A work that uses chance to decide parts, for example in music or art
Likely to involve risk or an uncertain result
Unpredictable because it depends on chance
Antonyms
Compounds
How Risky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chancy comes from chance, which comes from an old Latin word cadere meaning 'to fall'. The idea was that events 'fall' on you by luck, so chancy describes something that depends on luck and is risky.