Shaky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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