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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1. Lucas Braathen:

   You have everything from aggressive to pure ice, shaky, salty, whatever. He’ll adapt, it doesn’t matter the conditions and visibility. I admire him for that. That’s a place I want to end up myself in GS one day.

2. Dominic Chan:

   Investor confidence remains shaky.

3. Steve Smith:

   Mr. Zarauskas is a sporadically employed New Jersey construction worker who likes to go to flea markets, he was never present when a tusk crossed the border, and we think any suggestion that he knew the tusks were illegal is shaky.

4. Benjamin Lu:

   Shaky macroeconomic fundamentals and downward revisions by IEA on global oil demand has capped bullish gains, markets fear looser market fundamentals in the longer term.

5. Jeffrey Gundlach:

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