rickety
Meaning of rickety
adjective
- Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.
He hesitated about climbing such a small, rickety ladder.
- Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.
The rickety old man hardly managed to climb the stairs.
- Affected with or suffering from rickets.
Information about rickety
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of rickety
rick-ety
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- rickety is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
rickety synonyms
Meaning shaky:
Meaning rachitic:
Meaning decrepit:
decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, sapless, weak, weakly
Meaning :
giddy, precarious, tottering, unsafe, unstable, unsteady
Words that rhyme with rickety
buckety, clackety, crickety, finickety, jackety, lickety, pernickety, persnickety, pockety, rackety, rockety, skyrockety, tackety, thickety, blankety, clankety, perjinkety, trinkety
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