rickety

Meaning of rickety

adjective
  1. Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.
    He hesitated about climbing such a small, rickety ladder.
  2. Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.
    The rickety old man hardly managed to climb the stairs.
  3. Affected with or suffering from rickets.

Information about rickety

  • It is an adjective.
  • Languages ​​in which rickety is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of rickety

rick-ety

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • rickety is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

rickety synonyms

Meaning shaky:

shaky, wobbly, wonky

Meaning rachitic:

rachitic

Meaning decrepit:

decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, sapless, weak, weakly

Meaning :

giddy, precarious, tottering, unsafe, unstable, unsteady

Words that rhyme with rickety

buckety, clackety, crickety, finickety, jackety, lickety, pernickety, persnickety, pockety, rackety, rockety, skyrockety, tackety, thickety, blankety, clankety, perjinkety, trinkety

Are you looking more rhymes for rickety? Try our rhymes search engine.