risqué

Meaning

Slightly sexually suggestive; bordering on indelicate.

Opposite of

unrisqué

Synonyms

racy

risque

tangy

pushed pressed

Translations

risqué

gewagt

schlüpfrig

coquin

épicé

🥵

érotique

osé

speziato

scabroso

spinto

malicioso

sugerente

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪsˈkeɪ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French risqué (“risky”), an adjective use of the past participle of risquer (“to put at risk; to risk”), from risque (“risk”, noun) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Risque is derived from Old Italian risco (“risk”) (modern Italian rischio), possibly a deverbal from resecare or from Vulgar Latin *resecum, both from Latin resecō (“to cut loose or off, etc.”), from re- (intensifying prefix) + secō (“to cut; to cut off”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut; to cut off, sever”)).