Synonyms for shaky
ˈʃeɪ kishaky

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1. rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonkyadjective

   inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

   "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"

   Synonyms:
   weak, infirm, askew, weakly, debile, precarious, skew-whiff, trembling, cockeyed, sapless, rachitic, lopsided, decrepit, awry(p), shivering, wobbly, feeble, wonky, rickety

   Antonyms:
   secure, steady, stable

2. shaky, shivering, tremblingadjective

   vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze

   "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"

   Synonyms:
   wonky, shivering, precarious, wobbly, rickety, trembling

   Antonyms:
   stable, secure, steady

3. precarious, shakyadjective

   not secure; beset with difficulties

   "a shaky marriage"

   Synonyms:
   shivering, wobbly, trembling, perilous, parlous, rickety, wonky, unstable, touch-and-go, precarious

   Antonyms:
   stable, secure, steady

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1. shakyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unsound (as timber), full of clefts

2. shakyadjective

   Synonyms:
   shaking, trembling

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1. shakyadjective

   Synonyms:
   trembling, shaking, unsound, tottering

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1. List of paraphrases for "shaky":

   fragile, unstable, precarious, weak, uncertain, volatile, bumpy

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1. Lucas Braathen:

   You have everything from aggressive to pure ice, shaky, salty, whatever. He’ll adapt, it doesn’t matter the conditions and visibility. I admire him for that. That’s a place I want to end up myself in GS one day.

2. Collin Laverty:

   When you look at Havana, there are really four or five five-star hotels, then you get down to the four-star hotels and three-star hotels, and they get shaky.

3. John Czwartacki:

   The enforcement arms of government should not be used in order to shake down the productive sector just because we can, especially when the legal case is shaky at best.

4. Sharon Cooper:

   The revelation of this video existing to us and it not being revealed to us throughout the duration of the case at all, what that does is that puts our trust in them and their credibility on shaky ground with regard to taking what they share with us at face value.

5. Michele Johnson:

   It means we don't have a very bright future. It means we are on very shaky footing.