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a risqué performance, comment, joke, etc. shocks people slightly, usually because it is about sex Want to learn more? Find out which words work together and produce more natural-sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
Risqué definition: daringly close to indelicacy or impropriety; off-color. See examples of RISQUÉ used in a sentence.
Synonyms for RISQUÉ: suggestive, spicy, bawdy, lewd, racy, ribald, obscene, naughty; Antonyms of RISQUÉ: decent, clean, innocuous, inoffensive, prudish, G-rated ...
Define risque. risque synonyms, risque pronunciation, ... bordering on impropriety or indecency: a risqué joke. [C19: from French risquer to hazard, risk]
RISQUÉ meaning: 1. (of jokes or stories) slightly rude or shocking, especially because of being about sex 2. (of…. Learn more.
further revisions to definitions, pronunciation, etymology, headwords, variant spellings, quotations, and dates; new senses, phrases, and quotations. Revisions and additions of this kind were last incorporated into risqué, adj. in July 2023.
2 senses: obsolete → another name for risk bordering on impropriety or indecency.... Click for more definitions.
