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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How to use shaky in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Scott Segal:

   While Justice Scalia's untimely passing creates more uncertainty, the Clean Power Plan is still predicated on an extraordinarily shaky legal foundation.

3. Robert Dudley:

   I can cite the rules, but it's up to the court and the court will often take some very shaky cases because an issue is important. I honestly think this won't affect the court much.

4. Paul Gray:

   It is not looking good, it is looking worse by the day, those projects which were looking shaky beforehand are now well and truly dead.

5. Jeffrey Gundlach:

   Things are shaky and feeling dangerous, i am not selling gold.