Synonyms for shaky
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : shey-kee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃeɪ ki |
Top 10 synonyms for shaky Other synonyms for the word shaky
- all aquiver
- aquake
- aquiver
- ashake
- faltering
- fluctuant
- indecisive
- infirm
- jellylike
- jerry-built
- not dependable
- not reliable
- not set
- problematic
- quaking
- quivery
- rattletrap
- rootless
- shaking
- suspect
- tottering
- tottery
- tremorous
- tremulous
- tumbledown
- undependable
- unfirm
- unreliable
- unsettled
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsupported
- unsure
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- wobbly
- yielding
Définition of shaky
Origin :- 1840, of handwriting; 1841 of persons, horses, and credit; 1850 of structures; from shake (v.) + -y (2). General sense of "uncertain, of questionable integrity" is from 1834. Earliest of trees or logs, "split, having fissures" (1808). Related: Shakily; shakiness.
- adj trembling
- adj doubtful
- Now the man had an old grandfather at home, who was weak and shaky.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- Shaky was on his feet in an instant, and his anger was blazing in his fierce eyes.
- Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
- He weighed the stories he had heard from Shaky, and picked them threadbare.
- Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
- She found it very hard to speak and, when she did do so, her voice was shaky.
- Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It is so shaky nowadays that I can scarcely decipher some of it.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- "There were some fishermen there—with fish," he said in a shaky voice.
- Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
- After epileptic seizures and attacks of hysteria the writing is shaky.
- Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
- More than an hour, now, since Ivan had bidden him a shaky good-night!
- Extract from : « The Genius » by Margaret Horton Potter
- Shorts had a shaky grasp of one arm of Dillon, and Spuddy the other.
- Extract from : « Tess of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
- As soon as I went in, he came runnin' to me; but I could see he was shaky on his legs.
- Extract from : « Rudder Grange » by Frank R. Stockton
Antonyms for shaky
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