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rickety

adjective

1 rickety

Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect:
— A rickety table.

synonyms: shaky, wobbly, wonky.

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, ... show more

Polish: chybotliwy, wahliwy, niestabilny, chwiejny

2 rickety

Affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets:
— Rickety limbs and joints.

synonym: rachitic.

Polish: krzywiczy, krzywiczny

3 rickety

Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.

synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, sapless, weak, weakly.

Roget 160: weak, feeble, debile; impotent etc. 158; relaxed, unnerved, etc. v.; sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: adrift, afloat, allergic, anemic, anile, apoplectic, arthritic, bagging, baggy, bandy, bandy-legged, bilious, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, broken-down, cancerous, chlorotic, clear, club-footed ... show more.

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