Usually means: Likely to cause significant harm.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word high-risk:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. high-risk: Merriam-Webster
  2. high-risk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. high-risk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. high-risk, high-risk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. high-risk: Vocabulary.com
  6. High-Risk, High-risk, high-risk: Wordnik
  7. high-risk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. high-risk: Wiktionary
  9. high-risk: Dictionary.com
  10. high-risk: Rhymezone
  11. high-risk: FreeDictionary.org
  12. high-risk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. high-risk: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high-risk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high-risk: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (high-risk)

▸ adjective:  Having a great risk.

Similar:
risky, bad, unsound, speculative, insecure, aggressive, hazardful, major, ultrahazardous, extrahazardous, more...

Opposite:
low-risk, safe, secure, conservative

Phrases:
high-risk pregnancy, more...

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Similar:
risky, bad, unsound, speculative, insecure, aggressive, hazardful, major, ultrahazardous, extrahazardous, more...

Opposite:
low-risk, safe, secure, conservative

Phrases:
high-risk pregnancy, more...



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