Word Meanings - SHAKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHAKY)

• Tottering
• Nodding
• faltering
• shaky
• vacillating
• reeling
• ruinous

Related words: (words related to SHAKY)

• NODDING
  Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• REELECT
  To elect again; as, to reëlect the former governor.
• NODDY
  1. A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange. Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus. The arctic fulmar . Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. 3. An old game at cards. Halliwell. 4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. 5. An inverted pendulum
• VACILLATION
  1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor.
• SHAKY
  1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
• NODDER
  One who nods; a drowsy person.
• VACILLATE
  1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate.
• TOTTERY
  Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
• REELECTION
  Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.
• TOTTERINGLY
  In a tottering manner.
• FALTERING
  Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.
• NODDLE
  is the nodding part of the body, or perh. akin to E. knot; cf. Prov. 1. The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange. 2. The back part of the head or neck. For occasion ... turneth a bald
• REELIGIBLE
  Eligble again; capable of reëlection; as, reëligible to the same office. -- Re*ël`i*gi*bil"i*ty (r, n.
• REELER
  1. One who reels.
• REEL
  A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English "country dance," or contradance . Bartlett.
• RUINOUS
  1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
• TOTTERER
  One who totters.
• TREELESS
  Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley.
• KREEL
  See CREEL
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• FREELTE
  Frailty. Chaucer.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• PREELECT
  To elect beforehand.
• TOMNODDY
  A sea bird, the puffin. 2. A fool; a dunce; a noddy.