| 单词 | jerry built |
| 释义 | (adjective) Definition (of houses) built badly with cheap materials Workers at the plant speak of jerry-built equipment. Synonyms ramshackle a curious ramshackle building cheap faulty shabby defective flimsy a flimsy wooden door rickety She climbed the rickety wooden stairway. thrown together slipshod unsubstantial Opposites substantial , sturdy , well-built , well-constructed Additional synonymsin the sense of flimsy Definition not strong or substantial a flimsy wooden door Synonyms fragile, weak, slight, delicate, shallow, shaky, frail, superficial, makeshift, rickety, insubstantial, gimcrack, unsubstantialin the sense of rickety Definition likely to collapse or break She climbed the rickety wooden stairway. Synonyms shaky, broken, weak, broken-down, frail, insecure, feeble, precarious, derelict, flimsy, wobbly, imperfect, tottering, ramshackle, dilapidated, decrepit, unsteady, unsound, infirm, jerry-builtNearby words of |
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