Rickety
['rɪkɪtɪ] or ['rɪkəti]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; 'rickety limbs and joints'; 'a rachitic patient' .
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Definition
(a.) Affected with rickets.
(a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Affected with the rickets.[2]. Shattered, broken, weak, tottering, crazy.
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Examples
- It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united strength. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We heard a heavy tramp, tramp, tramp on the rickety stairs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His judgment, however, wanted surgical props; it was rickety. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was like feeding a rickety child on chalk and water gruel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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