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SHAKY
precarious, shaky
(adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties; “a shaky marriage”
rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky
(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”
shaky, shivering, trembling
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
shaky (comparative shakier, superlative shakiest)
Shaking or trembling.
Nervous, anxious.
(of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
Wavering; undecided.
Synonyms
• (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, unsteady, tottering, unsafe, unstable, wobbly
Source: Wiktionary
Shak"y, a. [Compar. Shakier; superl. Shakiest.]
1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray.
2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt.
3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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