dicey

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Fraught with danger.
  2. Of uncertain, risky outcome.
    — This was a dicey stratagem because all too often the support Britain rendered played into Zanu-PF's anti-colonial constructions.
  3. Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
    — As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn′t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.

词形变化

dicier comparative diciest superlative dicy alternative

词汇关系

近义词
chancy iffy
衍生词
diceyness dicily

词源

Etymology tree
English dice
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English dicey
From dice + -y.
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