Rickety

Word RICKETY
Character 7
Hyphenation rick et y
Pronunciations /ˈɹɪk.e.ti/

Definitions and meanings of "Rickety"

What do we mean by rickety?

Likely to break or fall apart; shaky. adjective

Feeble with age; infirm. adjective

Of, having, or resembling rickets. adjective

Affected with rickets.

Feeble in the joints; tottering; infirm; hence, in general, shaky; liable to fall or collapse, as a table, chair, bridge, etc.; figuratively, ill-sustained; weak.

Affected with rickets. adjective

Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky. adjective

Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure; giddy; shaky. adjective

Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering. adjective

Affected with or suffering from rickets. adjective

Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality adjective

Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect adjective

Affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets adjective

Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.

Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.

Affected with or suffering from rickets.

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The word "rickety" in example sentences

I have one I haven't read yet (The Immortal, in rickety old hardback), which I'm sort of saving up, the way you save up the last shot of really fine whiskey. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Exhibition games were played in rickety stadiums in front of only a handful of fans. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A befuddled moment passed before he understood she was referring to his rickety motorcycle and not to their assignment as volunteers. ❋ John Dalton (2004)

Aged and poverty-stricken army officers would drive up to the doorstep behind rickety old horses and in rickety carryalls. ❋ Unknown (1910)

This is the first time I've heard Russian hardware referred to as "rickety" -- "hell-for-stout" is the more usual description I've encountered. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His figure — what is commonly called rickety from his birth — presented a most ridiculous appearance, dressed in thick padded clothes, as a safeguard against being stabbed (of which he lived in continual fear), of a grass-green colour from head to foot, with a hunting-horn dangling at his side instead of a sword, and his hat and feather sticking over one eye, or hanging on the back of his head, as he happened to toss it on. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His figure -- what is commonly called rickety from his birth -- presented a most ridiculous appearance, dressed in thick padded clothes, as a safeguard against being stabbed (of which he lived in continual fear), of a grass-green colour from head to foot, with a hunting-horn dangling at his side instead of a sword, and his hat and feather sticking over one eye, or hanging on the back of his head, as he happened to toss it on. ❋ Unknown (1852)

Another house on the compound, built by an Indonesian housing agency, looks decidedly rickety, which is why a relative who was supposed to move into it is still renting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I hate that Bianca's brand of crazy, though, is kind of rickety, slow and boring. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What started as a two-page business plan and a Levy-confessed "rickety" newsletter now reaches 3.3 million subscribers each day in 12 local editions worldwide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Warsh's poetic mode, of which this is representative, might be described as softcore disassociation, gathering sticks and bundling them together in a kind of rickety, mismatched bouquet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And also, as I get older and more "rickety" myself, when someone tells me about chronic health problems, in the back of my mind I'm sometimes thinking: "Move over, I don't feel so well myself...." ❋ Mother Jones RN (2006)

Accordingly, babies fed upon condensed milk are apt to be "rickety," and they lack in general power to resist disease, which is primarily the mark of a baby fed on mother's milk, and to a slightly lesser degree, one fed upon cows 'milk. ❋ Marion Mills Miller (1906)

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