shaky

shaky is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand.
2. superlative. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber.
3. superlative. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
4. adjective. not secure; beset with difficulties

   "a shaky marriage"

   Synonyms: precarious

5. adjective. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

   "a rickety table"

   "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"

   Synonyms: rickety, wobbly, wonky

6. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: shivering, trembling

Synonyms

precarious, rickety, wobbly, wonky, shivering, trembling

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shaky:

hasky

Common word forms

shakier, shakily, shakiest

Words from these letters

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