When the boss checks our expenses it can be pretty dicey. He knows how to read between the lines.
Source: tatoeba (33437)
Dicey
//ˈdaɪsi//
Synonyms for "dicey" (84 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Synonyms
12 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- потенциално опасен adj (fraught with danger)
- рискован adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
Czech
4 entries- nebezpečný adj (fraught with danger)
- ošemetný adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- riskantní adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- zrádný adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
Dutch
4 entries- bedreigend adj (fraught with danger)
- gevaarlijk adj (fraught with danger)
- onzeker adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- riskant adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
French
4 entries- au résultat incertain adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- périlleux adj (fraught with danger)
- risqué adj (fraught with danger)
- risqué adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
German
2 entries- brenzlig adj (fraught with danger)
- riskant adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
Romanian
1 entries- riscant adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
Russian
2 entries- опа́сный adj (fraught with danger)
- рискованый adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- potencijalno opasan adj (fraught with danger)
- riskantan adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- rizičan adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
Spanish
4 entries- arriesgado adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- dudoso adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- incierto adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- peligroso adj (fraught with danger)
Swedish
2 entries- farlig adj (fraught with danger)
- riskabel adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
Turkish
4 entries- belirsiz adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- gayrimuayyen adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- müphem adj (of uncertain, risky outcome)
- riskli adj (fraught with danger)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
It got pretty dicey weaving in and out of traffic.
Source: tatoeba (10250546)
This was a dicey stratagem because all too often the support Britain rendered played into Zanu-PF's anti-colonial constructions.
Source: wiktionary
Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.