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Antonyms for jerry built
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : jer-ee-bild |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛr iˌbɪld |
- brave
- certain
- conclude
- confident
- decelerate
- decrease
- definite
- demolish
- destroy
- dismantle
- disperse
- finish
- firm
- good
- guarded
- halt
- happy
- indubious
- knock down
- neglect
- nice
- overthrow
- overturn
- protected
- raze
- repaired
- ruin
- safe
- scatter
- secure
- separate
- solid
- sophisticated
- sound
- stable
- steady
- stop
- strong
- sturdy
- sure
- take down
- unshaky
- unwavering
- wreck
Definition of jerry built
- As in jerry-built : adj flimsy
- As in ramshackle : adj falling apart; in poor condition
- As in rickety : adj unsound, broken-down
- As in shaky : adj trembling
- As in rough-and-ready : adj crude but serviceable
- As in build : verb construct structure
- Luckily the flats were jerry built, so the chain broke, and so suddenly that the Frenchman was pitched violently backwards.
- Extract from : « The Albert Gate Mystery » by Louis Tracy
Synonyms for jerry built
- ad-lib
- all aquiver
- aquake
- aquiver
- ashake
- assemble
- basic
- bring about
- broken
- broken-down
- carpenter
- cast
- cheap
- compile
- compose
- contrive
- crude
- crumbling
- decrepit
- defective
- derelict
- dilapidated
- engineer
- erect
- evolve
- extemporaneous
- fabricate
- faltering
- fashion
- feeble
- fit together
- flimsy
- fluctuant
- forge
- form
- fragile
- frail
- frame
- imperfect
- improvised
- infirm
- insecure
- insubstantial
- jellylike
- jerry-build
- jerry-built
- jerry-rigged
- jittery
- junky
- knock together
- make
- makeshift
- manufacture
- model
- nervous
- not set
- precarious
- prefabricate
- primitive
- produce
- provisional
- put together
- put up
- quaking
- quivery
- rachitic
- raise
- ramshackle
- rattletrap
- rear
- reconstruct
- rickety
- rocky
- rootless
- sculpture
- set up
- shabby
- shaking
- shaky
- shoddy
- slipshod
- superstruct
- synthesize
- throw together
- throw up
- thrown together
- tottering
- tottery
- tremorous
- tremulous
- tumble-down
- tumbledown
- unfirm
- unrefined
- unsafe
- unsettled
- unsophisticated
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsubstantial
- unsure
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- wild-and-woolly
- wobbly
- yielding
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