RICKETY - 10 definitions found
rickety adj 1: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky] 2: affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient" [syn: rickety, rachitic] 3: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) rickety adjective Date: 1683 1. affected with rickets 2. a. lacking stability or firmness ; shaky 2a <a rickety coalition> b. in unsound physical condition <rickety veterans> <rickety stairs> Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary rickety A rickety structure or piece of furniture is not very strong or well made, and seems likely to collapse or break. Mona climbed the rickety wooden stairway. ADJ: usu ADJ n English Explanatory Dictionary rickety ˈrɪkɪtɪ adj. 1 a insecure or shaky in construction; likely to collapse. b feeble. 2 a suffering from rickets. b resembling or of the nature of rickets. øøricketiness n. [RICKETS + -Y(1)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rickety \Rick"et*y\, a. 1. Affected with rickets. 2. Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms rickety a. 1. Affected with the rickets. 2. Shattered, broken, weak, imperfect. 3. Shaky, tottering, approaching ruin. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) rickety ˈrɪkɪtɪ adj. wobbly, unsteady, broken-down, decrepit, shaky, tottering, teetering, ramshackle, flimsy, frail, precarious, dilapidated, in disrepair, tumbledown, unsecure: Don't put such a heavy lamp on that rickety table! Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 144 Moby Thesaurus words for "rickety": adrift, afloat, allergic, anemic, anile, apoplectic, arthritic, bagging, baggy, bandy, bandy-legged, bilious, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, broken-down, cancerous, chlorotic, clear, club-footed, colicky, consumptive, crabbed, dangling, debilitated, decrepit, defaced, deformed, dilapidated, disfigured, doddered, doddering, doddery, drooping, dropsical, dwarfed, dyspeptic, easy, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, feeble, flapping, flatfooted, flimsy, floating, fossilized, frail, free, gerontal, gerontic, groggy, grotesque, hanging, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, in disrepair, infirm, knock-kneed, laryngitic, lax, leprous, loose, luetic, malarial, malformed, malignant, marred, measly, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, mutilated, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, out of shape, palsied, papery-skinned, paralytic, phthisic, pigeon-toed, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, precarious, pug-nosed, rachitic, ramshackle, ravaged with age, relaxed, rheumatic, ricketish, rocky, run to seed, rusty, scorbutic, scrofulous, senile, shaky, shriveled, simous, slack, sloppy, snub-nosed, spidery, spindly, streaming, stricken in years, stumpy, swaybacked, tabetic, tabid, talipedic, teetering, teetery, timeworn, tottering, tottery, truncated, tubercular, tuberculous, tumbledown, tumorigenic, tumorous, unanchored, unbound, undone, unfastened, unfixed, unsecure, unsteady, unstuck, untied, weak, withered, wizened, wobbly |
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