What does Dicey mean?

Definitions for Dicey
ˈdaɪ sidicey

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. chancy, chanceful, dicey, dodgyadjective

    of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk

    "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker

Wiktionary

  1. diceyadjective

    Fraught with danger.

  2. diceyadjective

    Of uncertain, risky outcome.

  3. diceyadjective

    Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.

  4. diceyadjective

    Nauseating, rank.

Wikipedia

  1. Dicey

    Dicey is a surname.

ChatGPT

  1. dicey

    Dicey generally refers to a situation or circumstance that is unpredictable, uncertain, risky or potentially dangerous. It is often used to describe a situation that could have both positive and negative outcomes, which may depend on chance or uncontrollable factors.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DICEY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dicey is ranked #100302 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Dicey surname appeared 180 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Dicey.

    96.1% or 173 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Dicey in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Dicey in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Dicey in a Sentence

  1. Matt Schulz:

    Eventually these deferred bills will come due and the saved money from the previous stimulus will run out, and that's when things may get pretty darn dicey for a lot of Americans.

  2. Peter Hotez:

    It gets a little dicey when people kind of take intermediate positions between the two, and they tend to get heavily criticized.

  3. Robert Thompson:

    ' Curb Your Enthusiasm' is supposed to make us uncomfortable, but some of the ways Your Enthusiasm is treating this is really kind of dicey.

  4. Karen Friedman Agnifilo:

    The entirety of the prosecution’s case file will soon have to be turned over to the defense, prosecutors don’t want it made public because they’re focused on the proceedings and know Trump will try this in the court of public opinion way before any trial in a court. That’s where the integrity of the proceedings can get really dicey – and that’s what they’re trying to accomplish with a protective order.

  5. Heidi Shierholz:

    The more time goes by, summing up initial claims gets a little dicey.

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