Rickety

Adjective

 * 1) Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure; giddy; shaky.
 * He hesitated about climbing such a small, rickety ladder.
 * 1) Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.
 * The rickety old man hardly managed to climb the stairs.
 * 1) Affected with or suffering from rickets.

Adverbs for Rickety
absurdly; comically; dangerously; fearfully; amusingly; extremely; hazardously; impossibly; alarmingly; curiously; noisily; perilously; laughably.

Thesaurus
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

Alternative forms

 * ricketty

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Dutch: wankel
 * Finnish:, kuppainen
 * French: chambranlant,, boiteux
 * German:
 * Greek: ετοιμόρροπος, σαθρός, ξεχαρβαλωμένος


 * Italian: traballante
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: skranglig


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek: ετοιμόρροπος
 * Russian: трясущийся


 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: rachitisch


 * Greek: ραχιτικός
 * Russian: