Shaky \Shak"y\, a. [Compar. Shakier; superl. Shakiest.]
1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky
hand. --Thackeray.
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2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber.
--Gwilt.
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3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky
constitution; shaky business credit. [Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shaky
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, wobbly,
wonky]
2: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or
cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a
quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more";
"quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees";
"seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the
shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
[syn: quaking, quivering, shaking, shivering, trembling]
3: not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"
[syn: precarious]
[also: shakiest, shakier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
208 Moby Thesaurus words for "shaky":
adrift, afloat, agitated, aguey, aguish, algid, all shook up,
all-overish, anile, aquiver, aspen, bagging, baggy, bashful,
blue with cold, blurred, breathy, chattering, chilly, choked,
choking, clear, cold, cool, cowardly, crabbed, croaking, dangerous,
dangling, debilitated, decrepit, desultory, dickey, diffident,
dilapidated, dithery, doddered, doddering, doddery, doubtful,
drawling, drawly, drooping, dubious, dysphonic, easy, fearful,
fearing, fearsome, feeble, fidgeting, fidgety, flapping, flimsy,
floating, fluctuant, fluttery, fossilized, free, frozen,
frozen to death, gerontal, gerontic, goosy, groggy, guttural,
half-frozen, hanging, harsh, hawking, hazardous, hoarse, iffy,
in a quiver, in fear, inarticulate, indecisive, indistinct, infirm,
insecure, insubstantial, jittery, jumpy, lax, lisping, loose,
mispronounced, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mousy, mummylike, muzzy,
nasal, nervous, palsied, papery-skinned, perilous, precarious,
problematic, provisional, quaking, quavering, quavery,
questionable, quivering, quivery, rabbity, rachitic, rackety,
ramshackle, rattletrap, ravaged with age, relaxed, ricketish,
rickety, risky, rocky, rootless, run to seed, rusty, scary, senile,
shaking, shifting, shifty, shivering, shivery, shook up, shrinking,
shriveled, shuddering, shy, skittery, skittish, slack, slippery,
sloppy, snuffling, spidery, spindly, startlish, stifled, strangled,
streaming, stricken in years, succussatory, succussive, suspect,
teetering, teetery, temporary, tentative, tenuous, thick, throaty,
ticklish, timeworn, timid, timorous, tottering, tottery,
treacherous, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, trepidant,
trigger-happy, tumbledown, twangy, twitchy, twittery, unanchored,
unbound, uncertain, unclear, undependable, undone, unfaithworthy,
unfastened, unfixed, unhealthy, unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe,
unsettled, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady,
unstuck, unsubstantial, unsubstantiated, unsupported, unsure,
untied, untrustworthy, vacillating, velar, vibrating, wavering,
weak, with chattering teeth, withered, wizened, wobbling, wobbly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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