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high-risk

high-risk adjective: having a great risk.

Adjective

high-risk (comparative higher-risk, superlative highest-risk)

  1. Having a great risk.
    • I don't consider myself high-risk anymore except that I did have cancer, so, one of the things we don't hear talked about a lot is how do you judge your high-riskness. If you have had cancer, where do you fit in? How do you make those decisions...?2007 March 30, Jene from Boston (caller), “Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines”, Talk of the Nation Science Friday, Ira Flatow (host), National Public Radio...

Antonyms of high-risk

Forms of high-risk

comparativehigher-risk
superlativehighest-risk

Origin of high-risk

From high + risk.

Questions about high-risk

What does high-risk mean?
High-risk means having a great risk.
What part of speech is high-risk?
High-risk is an adjective.

Words near high-risk in the dictionary

  1. high-rise
  2. high-rise syndrome
  3. high-riser
  4. high-risers
  5. high-rises
  6. high-risk
  7. high-risk, high-reward
  8. high-roller
  9. high-rollers
  10. high-school
  11. high-schooler

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