Adjective: shaky (shakier,shakiest) shey-kee
- Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
"a wobbly chair with shaky legs";
- rickety, wobbly, wonky [informal]
- Vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear, cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
"seemed shaky on her feet";
- shivering, trembling, quivery, atremble, aquiver
- Not secure; beset with difficulties
"a shaky marriage";
- precarious
Derived forms: shakiest, shakier
See also: insecure, unsafe, unstable, unsteady
Encyclopedia: Shaky