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highest-risk

highest-risk is the superlative 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 highest-risk

What is highest-risk the superlative form of?
Highest-risk is the superlative form of high-risk.

Words near highest-risk in the dictionary

  1. highest-quality
  2. highest-ranking
  3. highest-rated
  4. highest-rent
  5. highest-resolution
  6. highest-risk
  7. highest-seeded
  8. highest-speed
  9. highest-status
  10. highest-strung
  11. highest-time

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