Risk Synonyms

50 risk synonyms include possibility, chance, probability, likelihood, danger, peril, threat, menace, fear, and prospect. Risk is a noun, and its antonyms are safety and impossibility. Here are some additional synonyms for "risk" with example sentences.

Another word for Risk

50 other ways to say risk.

1. possibility

2. chance

  • venture
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  • unpredictability  
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  • uncertainty
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  • threat
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  • riskiness  
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  • prospect  
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  • probability  
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  • precariousness  
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  • possibility
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  • perilousness  
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  • peril  
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  • menace  
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  • likelihood  
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  • instability  
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  • insecurity  
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  • gamble  
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  • fear
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  • danger  
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  • chance
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3. danger

  • threat
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  • peril  
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  • menace  
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  • jeopardy  
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  • hazard  
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  • danger  
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4. endanger

  • wager  
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  • venture
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  • take a chance with  
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  • put on the line  
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  • put in jeopardy  
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  • put in danger  
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  • put at risk  
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  • jeopardize  
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  • imperil  
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  • hazard  
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  • gamble (with)  
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  • expose to danger  
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  • endanger  
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  • chance
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  • bet  
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Use risk in a Sentence

Abandoning caution, she took the risk.

Does this involve any risk?

He knew the job involved risk.

Investing in stocks carries some risk.

She took the necessary risk today.

The benefit outweighs the risk.