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risqué
- /ˈɹɪskeɪ/ UK
- /ɹɪsˈkeɪ/ UK
- /ɹiː-/ UK
- /ɹəˈskeɪ/ US
- /ɹɪ-/ US
Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
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”)).
adjective more risqué · most risqué · risque · risquée
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Slightly sexually suggestive; bordering on indelicate.
[S]he was angry with herself; and, for that, sang the more loudly the most wicked and risqué of her slang songs, that gave the morals of a Messalina in the language of a fish-wife, and yet had an inalienable, mischievous, contagious, dauntless French grace in it withal.
Similar: raunchy, cheeky, suggestive, daring, naughty, near the knuckle, racy, rorty, saucy · Opposite: unrisqué
Translations
Talk about this word "risqué." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/risqu%C3%A9. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. risqué. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/risqu%C3%A9 "risqué." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/risqu%C3%A9.Cite this
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title = {risqué},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/risqu%C3%A9},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
