Thesaurus:rickety
English
Adjective
Sense: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep
Synonyms
- bockety (Ireland)
- bone-shaking (idiomatic)
- craichy
- cranky
- creaky
- creaking
- drooping
- flimsy
- precarious
- unsteady [⇒ thesaurus]
- rickety
- rottletrap (British dialect)
- shackly (US, dated)
- shaky
- shoogly (British dialect)
- tottering
- tottersome
- unsafe
- unstable
- wobbly
- wonky (UK, Aus, NZ)
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “160. weakness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “rickety” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.