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rickety

 : 
Adjective
 : 
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective rickety has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

ricketya. 
  •  Affected with rickets.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rickety, adj.
1 a insecure or shaky in construction; likely to collapse. b feeble.
2 a suffering from rickets. b resembling or of the nature of rickets.

Derivative
ricketiness n.
Etymology
RICKETS + -Y(1)

THESAURUS

rickety

adrift, afloat, allergic, anemic, anile, apoplectic, arthritic, bagging, baggy, bandy, bandy-legged, bilious, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, broken-down, cancerous, chlorotic, clear, club-footed, colicky, consumptive, crabbed, dangling, debilitated, decrepit, defaced, deformed, dilapidated, disfigured, doddered, doddering, doddery, drooping, dropsical, dwarfed, dyspeptic, easy, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, feeble, flapping, flatfooted, flimsy, floating, fossilized, frail, free, gerontal, gerontic, groggy, grotesque, hanging, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, in disrepair, infirm, knock-kneed, laryngitic, lax, leprous, loose, luetic, malarial, malformed, malignant, marred, measly, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, mutilated, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, out of shape, palsied, papery-skinned, paralytic, phthisic, pigeon-toed, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, precarious, pug-nosed, rachitic, ramshackle, ravaged with age, relaxed, rheumatic, ricketish, rocky, run to seed, rusty, scorbutic, scrofulous, senile, shaky, shriveled, simous, slack, sloppy, snub-nosed, spidery, spindly, streaming, stricken in years, stumpy, swaybacked, tabetic, tabid, talipedic, teetering, teetery, timeworn, tottering, tottery, truncated, tubercular, tuberculous, tumbledown, tumorigenic, tumorous, unanchored, unbound, undone, unfastened, unfixed, unsecure, unsteady, unstuck, untied, weak, withered, wizened, wobbly

ROGET THESAURUS

rickety

Weakness

N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.

Ugliness

N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.

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