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higher-risk

higher-risk is the comparative form of high-risk.

Meaning of high-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...

Questions about higher-risk

What is higher-risk the comparative form of?
Higher-risk is the comparative form of high-risk.

Words near higher-risk in the dictionary

  1. higher-proof
  2. higher-quality
  3. higher-ranking
  4. higher-rent
  5. higher-resolution
  6. higher-risk
  7. higher-seeded
  8. higher-speed
  9. higher-speed rail
  10. higher-status
  11. higher-strung

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