ricketiness

ricketiness
The state or condition of being rickety.

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  • ricketiness — rickety ► ADJECTIVE 1) poorly made and likely to collapse. 2) suffering from rickets. DERIVATIVES ricketiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • ricketiness — See rickety. * * * …   Universalium

  • ricketiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being physically unsteady: instability, precariousness, shakiness, unstableness, unsteadiness, wobbliness. See FLEXIBLE …   English dictionary for students

  • ricketiness — rɪkÉ™tɪnɪs n. state of being shaky, instability; flimsiness, state of being in dilapidated …   English contemporary dictionary

  • ricketiness — rick·et·i·ness …   English syllables

  • ricketiness — noun the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place • Syn: ↑unsteadiness • Ant: ↑steadiness (for: ↑unsteadiness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑rickety, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • rickety — ricketiness, n. /rik i tee/, adj., ricketier, ricketiest. 1. likely to fall or collapse; shaky: a rickety chair. 2. feeble in the joints; tottering; infirm: a rickety old man. 3. old, dilapidated, or in disrepair. 4. irregular, as motion or… …   Universalium

  • unsteadiness — noun 1. the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place • Syn: ↑ricketiness • Ant: ↑steadiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑rickety (for: ↑ricketiness), ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • anility — Synonyms and related words: advanced age, advanced years, age of retirement, an incurable disease, caducity, childishness, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, dotardism, eld, elderliness, feebleness, green… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • caducity — Synonyms and related words: advanced age, advanced years, age of retirement, an incurable disease, anility, changeableness, childishness, corruptibility, death, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, dotardism,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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