Another word for rickety | Synonyms for rickety

Another word for rickety

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rickety

modif.

Liable to collapse
shaky, fragile, unsteady, wobbly; see weak 2.
Weak in the joints
infirm, tottering, rachitic; see sick, weak 1.

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Another word for rickety

adjective

Not physically steady or firm:

precarious, shaky, tottering, tottery, unstable, unsteady, wobbly. See flexible

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Most large predators could never accomplish the climb up a rickety tree, but cats are naturally strong and agile.
Martha's voice dropped to a whisper as she pointed to a rickety staircase.
He was ungainly, with rickety legs.
"Uncle" lifted Natasha off her horse and taking her hand led her up the rickety wooden steps of the porch.
But a rickety wooden thing like you has no right to be alive.

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