'Rickety' definitions:
Definition of 'rickety'
From: WordNet
adjective
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, shaky, wobbly, wonky]
adjective
Affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient" [syn: rickety, rachitic]
adjective
Definition of 'Rickety'
From: GCIDE
- Rickety \Rick"et*y\, a.
- 1. Affected with rickets. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rickety'
From: Moby 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