Shaky

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Trembling or quivering; tremulous: a shaky voice.
  • adj. Lacking soundness or sturdiness, as of construction: a shaky table.
  • adj. Not to be depended on; precarious: a shaky alliance.
  • adj. Wavering in firmness: a shaky belief.
  • adj. Open to question or doubt: shaky evidence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Shaking or trembling.
  • adj. Nervous; Anxious.
  • adj. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
  • adj. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Shaking or trembling.
  • adj. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
  • adj. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Disposed to shake or tremble; shaking; unsteady: as, a shaky hand.
  • Loosely put together; ready to come to pieces.
  • Full of shakes or cracks; cracked, split, or cleft, as timber.
  • Feeble; weak.
  • Wavering; undecided; uncertain: as, there are a good many shaky voters in the district.
  • Of questionable integrity, solvency, or ability.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not secure; beset with difficulties
  • adj. vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
  • adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
  • Equivalent
    insecure    unsafe    unsteady    unstable   
    Cross Reference
    uncertain    trembling   
    Variant
    shakier    shakiest   
    Form
    shakiness    shakycam   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cracked    tottering    unsound   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blakey    achy    bakey    blakey    breaky    flaky    reiki   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unsteady    uncertain    uneven    rickety    Wobbly    frail    hoarse    uneasy    hesitant    tremulous