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rickety
What does rickety mean?
rickety (adjective): inclined to shake as from weakness or defect.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use rickety in a sentence?
- A rickety table. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce rickety?
/ˈɹɪkəti/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does rickety come from?
From dialectal ricket (“unstable, rickety”) + -y, and/or ricket (“to move noisily and in a reckless way”) + -y.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of rickety?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “rickety” mean?
inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
Right! That's what “rickety” means.
capable of working together without conflict
Not quite: that's what compatible means.
restricting according to rules or principles
Not quite: that's what regulatory means.
characterized by conscious design or purpose
Not quite: that's what intentional means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “rickety”?
nasty
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shaky
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loyal
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naval
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