Definitions for rickety

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rickety rick·et·y

Spelling: [rik-i-tee]

IPA: /ˈrɪk ɪ ti/

Rickety is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in rickety (ceikrty).

Definitions for rickety

adjective

1. likely to fall or collapse; shaky:
2. feeble in the joints; tottering; infirm:
3. old, dilapidated, or in disrepair.
4. irregular, as motion or action.
5. affected with or suffering from rickets.
6. pertaining to or of the nature of rickets.

Origin of rickety

First recorded in 1675-85; ricket(s) + -y¹

Examples for rickety

Another, a third, and a fourth gust rattled and shook the rickety frame.

There was a thud as his fist hit the rickety, squeaking table in the center of the room.

We were staying in this cool, rickety, haunted hotel on Lake Michigan and just had an amazing time.

There were taxis, called “hackneys,” which were rickety stagecoaches cast off by the rich and repurposed as transport for hire.

He lit a candle, and went cautiously down the rickety staircase.

She looks at you and then points to a rickety wooden boat about twenty-five meters from where you stand.

"Yeah, all right," he mutters, then follows his brothers out of the room, down a rickety flight of stairs and into the crucible.

Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up.

Under the washshed, which adjoined the kitchen, was a rickety door.

I perceive the altar to be rickety and the Commandments damp.