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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition" [syn: chancy, fluky, flukey, iffy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: ¹if Date: 1937 1. having many uncertain or unknown qualities or conditions <an iffy proposition> 2. of inconsistent or unreliable quality • iffiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (iffier, iffiest) colloq. uncertain, doubtful.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that something is iffy, you mean that it is not very good in some way. (INFORMAL) If your next record's a bit iffy, you're forgotten... = dodgy ADJ 2. If something is iffy, it is uncertain. (INFORMAL) His political future has looked iffy for most of this year. = doubtful ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arguable, at issue, capricious, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, confutable, conjectural, contestable, contingent, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, destinal, dicey, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, erratic, fatal, fatidic, fluctuant, fluky, fortuitous, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, incalculable, incidental, indeterminate, mistakable, moot, open to doubt, open to question, problematic, questionable, refutable, risky, speculative, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, uncaused, undetermined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredictable, whimsical