Definition of shaky in English:

shaky

adjectiveshakier, shakiest ˈʃeɪkiˈʃeɪki

1Shaking or trembling.
she managed a shaky laugh
Example sentencesExamples
- The old man laughed as well, a strange, shaky laugh that went along with his accent.
- I shook my head, pointing a shaky finger towards the box.
- Instead, from what I could make out over the music, her voice sounded shaky and weak.
- Gavin's voice sounds miraculous, the low baritone of it trembling in my already shaky spine, and I needed him here.
- Hannah's voice trembled as she said this and she took shaky steps toward her sister's bedroom door.
- He gripped the steering wheel, letting out a shaky little laugh before speaking.
- She touched her lips with shaky fingers, lips quivering as the tears ran past them.
- She managed a shaky smile, and held out a trembling hand - the one that she wasn't gripping Greg's with - for me to shake.
- When they parted, the two gave a small, shaky, yet happy laugh.
- It's two in the afternoon, now, and I still feel shaky and weak.
- He looked up surprised, shook his head and gave out a shaky laugh.
- He leaned against the table and tried to find a chair to sit on, but his legs were too shaky and weak to even bend.
- The nurse came in and introduced herself, and with a shaky hand I shook hers.
- A shaky laugh bubbles past his lips, and dizzy words start tumbling out of him.
- I let out a shaky laugh and pulled away so that I could look up at him.
- He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky.
- I took a shaky breath and with a trembling hand, I took out the paper once more, my eyes skimming over the quickly written words.
- My legs felt weak, my body shaky, and I wasn't sure whether I was hot or cold.
- He still felt weak and shaky, as if he had recovered from the flu.
- I was still feeling weak and shaky, but I wasn't worried about it.
Synonyms
trembling, shaking, tremulous, quivering, quivery, unsteady, wobbly, weak
quavery
informal trembly
faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy
weak, weak-kneed, weak at the knees, wobbly, quivery, unsteady, groggy, muzzy
informal trembly, all of a tremble, all of a quiver, with rubbery legs, woozy
rare vertiginous
1. 1.1 Unstable because of poor construction or heavy use.
  a cracked, dangerously shaky table
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although it looked a little unstable and shaky, it would last the night.
  I'm writing this by the moonlight of an open window at a shaky table with a broken leg.
  He was simply relating an event as if explaining he had spilled his coffee because the table was shaky.
  Synonyms
  unsteady, unstable, wobbly, precarious, rocky, rickety, flimsy, frail
  decrepit, ramshackle, dilapidated, on its last legs
  informal teetery
  British informal wonky, dicky
2. 1.2 Not safe or reliable; liable to fail or falter.
  thoroughly shaky evidence
  after a shaky start the Scottish team made superb efforts
  Example sentencesExamples
  These unreliable claims are based on incomplete, shaky evidence.
  In fact, the board's support for a spring academic freedom conference has been shaky, making the organising quite precarious.
  The many cases in which shaky evidence was sold to the public have not just been ruses concocted by spin doctors to win over public opinion.
  Secondly, I think that it's on very, very shaky ground without constitutional authorization.
  Some were very shaky and unstable, others were convoluted, and a few were both!
  The second step was to jettison arguments that rested on shaky evidence.
  Mounting debt, accumulated over the past few years, coupled with reports of unpaid performers had put the event on shaky ground.
  Financially, Civil War History had continued on shaky financial grounds.
  The intellectual biography of the curator has to be on shaky ground.
  Unless a judge agrees that they fulfill a special need, the screenings will be on shaky legal ground.
  They then found more evidence of shaky business practices, and decided to file an official complaint against the company.
  The evening got off to a shaky start as our table wasn't ready, and the restaurant was unfazed by this.
  Those negotiations are, you know, on shaky ground now, but these are the only two parties.
  In Orchestra Rehearsal, the quaking building manifests the orchestra's shaky social ground.
  Two painkillers and some cold water later, she made her shaky way down the precarious steps into the living room.
  Although we now have eight parties with representation, some of the smaller ones might be on shaky ground.
  But start talking about who did it, and you might be on shaky ground.
  So with a shaky resolution and with a will that was even more frail, I took the first step.
  Although it's fairly obvious that he's innocent and that the evidence against him's shaky at best, the victim IDs him and he's sent to a holding cell to await trial.
  After this the Blues were shaky, losing too many penalty corners and unable to connect passes.
  Synonyms
  faltering, unsteady, uncertain, tentative, wobbly, wobbling, tottering, tottery, teetering, doddering, doddery, shaking, staggering
  unreliable, untrustworthy, questionable, dubious, doubtful, tenuous, suspect, unsubstantial, flimsy, weak, nebulous, unsound, undependable, unsupported, unsubstantiated, ungrounded, unfounded
  informal iffy
  British informal dodgy

Derivatives

shakily

adverb ˈʃeɪkɪli

Picking up her glass shakily, Adrienne takes another sip of her water and decides to let it drop.
Example sentencesExamples
- She rose from the floor shakily, no doubt with a swimming head.
- He hands the glossy thing to me and I shakily accept it like a sad surrender.
- The maid stood up shakily and tottered down the long dark corridor, towards the nursery.
- His mouth opened but no sound came out, and he pointed shakily towards where he had been looking.

shakiness

noun ˈʃeɪkɪnəsˈʃeɪkinəs

As an ex-Chief of Defence he had probably experienced at first hand the shakiness of our strategic policy foundations.
Example sentencesExamples
- On the downside, it can cause sleeplessness, nervousness and shakiness in people whose bodies do not respond well to it.
- It has grown to become one of the great weird voices, up there with those of Neil Young and Little Jimmy Scott, its shakiness having evolved into style.
- Following reduction or cessation of use, severe intermittent symptoms of palpitations, sweating, shakiness and insomnia were alleged starting in 1989 and lasting for 2-3 years, thus outside any relevant period of cover.
- ‘You're lying,’ she said, responding to the shakiness of his voice.

Rhymes

achy, Blakey, flaky, quaky, snaky, wakey-wakey

Definition of shaky in US English:

shaky

adjectiveˈSHākēˈʃeɪki

1Shaking or trembling.
she managed a shaky laugh
Example sentencesExamples
- The nurse came in and introduced herself, and with a shaky hand I shook hers.
- I took a shaky breath and with a trembling hand, I took out the paper once more, my eyes skimming over the quickly written words.
- He gripped the steering wheel, letting out a shaky little laugh before speaking.
- I let out a shaky laugh and pulled away so that I could look up at him.
- She touched her lips with shaky fingers, lips quivering as the tears ran past them.
- She managed a shaky smile, and held out a trembling hand - the one that she wasn't gripping Greg's with - for me to shake.
- I shook my head, pointing a shaky finger towards the box.
- My legs felt weak, my body shaky, and I wasn't sure whether I was hot or cold.
- He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky.
- When they parted, the two gave a small, shaky, yet happy laugh.
- He leaned against the table and tried to find a chair to sit on, but his legs were too shaky and weak to even bend.
- He still felt weak and shaky, as if he had recovered from the flu.
- He looked up surprised, shook his head and gave out a shaky laugh.
- Instead, from what I could make out over the music, her voice sounded shaky and weak.
- I was still feeling weak and shaky, but I wasn't worried about it.
- Hannah's voice trembled as she said this and she took shaky steps toward her sister's bedroom door.
- A shaky laugh bubbles past his lips, and dizzy words start tumbling out of him.
- Gavin's voice sounds miraculous, the low baritone of it trembling in my already shaky spine, and I needed him here.
- It's two in the afternoon, now, and I still feel shaky and weak.
- The old man laughed as well, a strange, shaky laugh that went along with his accent.
Synonyms
trembling, shaking, tremulous, quivering, quivery, unsteady, wobbly, weak
faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy
1. 1.1 Unstable because of poor construction or heavy use.
  a cracked, dangerously shaky table
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although it looked a little unstable and shaky, it would last the night.
  He was simply relating an event as if explaining he had spilled his coffee because the table was shaky.
  I'm writing this by the moonlight of an open window at a shaky table with a broken leg.
  Synonyms
  unsteady, unstable, wobbly, precarious, rocky, rickety, flimsy, frail
2. 1.2 Not safe or reliable; liable to fail or falter.
  thoroughly shaky evidence
  Burns overcame a shaky start to beat the Red Sox
  Example sentencesExamples
  So with a shaky resolution and with a will that was even more frail, I took the first step.
  The evening got off to a shaky start as our table wasn't ready, and the restaurant was unfazed by this.
  The second step was to jettison arguments that rested on shaky evidence.
  Although it's fairly obvious that he's innocent and that the evidence against him's shaky at best, the victim IDs him and he's sent to a holding cell to await trial.
  In Orchestra Rehearsal, the quaking building manifests the orchestra's shaky social ground.
  Financially, Civil War History had continued on shaky financial grounds.
  They then found more evidence of shaky business practices, and decided to file an official complaint against the company.
  These unreliable claims are based on incomplete, shaky evidence.
  Unless a judge agrees that they fulfill a special need, the screenings will be on shaky legal ground.
  Some were very shaky and unstable, others were convoluted, and a few were both!
  The intellectual biography of the curator has to be on shaky ground.
  Secondly, I think that it's on very, very shaky ground without constitutional authorization.
  But start talking about who did it, and you might be on shaky ground.
  Two painkillers and some cold water later, she made her shaky way down the precarious steps into the living room.
  The many cases in which shaky evidence was sold to the public have not just been ruses concocted by spin doctors to win over public opinion.
  Although we now have eight parties with representation, some of the smaller ones might be on shaky ground.
  In fact, the board's support for a spring academic freedom conference has been shaky, making the organising quite precarious.
  Mounting debt, accumulated over the past few years, coupled with reports of unpaid performers had put the event on shaky ground.
  Those negotiations are, you know, on shaky ground now, but these are the only two parties.
  After this the Blues were shaky, losing too many penalty corners and unable to connect passes.
  Synonyms
  faltering, unsteady, uncertain, tentative, wobbly, wobbling, tottering, tottery, teetering, doddering, doddery, shaking, staggering
  unreliable, untrustworthy, questionable, dubious, doubtful, tenuous, suspect, unsubstantial, flimsy, weak, nebulous, unsound, undependable, unsupported, unsubstantiated, ungrounded, unfounded

单词	shaky
释义	Definition of shaky in English: shaky adjectiveshakier, shakiest ˈʃeɪkiˈʃeɪki 1Shaking or trembling. she managed a shaky laugh Example sentencesExamples The old man laughed as well, a strange, shaky laugh that went along with his accent. I shook my head, pointing a shaky finger towards the box. Instead, from what I could make out over the music, her voice sounded shaky and weak. Gavin's voice sounds miraculous, the low baritone of it trembling in my already shaky spine, and I needed him here. Hannah's voice trembled as she said this and she took shaky steps toward her sister's bedroom door. He gripped the steering wheel, letting out a shaky little laugh before speaking. She touched her lips with shaky fingers, lips quivering as the tears ran past them. She managed a shaky smile, and held out a trembling hand - the one that she wasn't gripping Greg's with - for me to shake. When they parted, the two gave a small, shaky, yet happy laugh. It's two in the afternoon, now, and I still feel shaky and weak. He looked up surprised, shook his head and gave out a shaky laugh. He leaned against the table and tried to find a chair to sit on, but his legs were too shaky and weak to even bend. The nurse came in and introduced herself, and with a shaky hand I shook hers. A shaky laugh bubbles past his lips, and dizzy words start tumbling out of him. I let out a shaky laugh and pulled away so that I could look up at him. He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky. I took a shaky breath and with a trembling hand, I took out the paper once more, my eyes skimming over the quickly written words. My legs felt weak, my body shaky, and I wasn't sure whether I was hot or cold. He still felt weak and shaky, as if he had recovered from the flu. I was still feeling weak and shaky, but I wasn't worried about it. Synonyms trembling, shaking, tremulous, quivering, quivery, unsteady, wobbly, weak quavery informal trembly faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy weak, weak-kneed, weak at the knees, wobbly, quivery, unsteady, groggy, muzzy informal trembly, all of a tremble, all of a quiver, with rubbery legs, woozy rare vertiginous 1.1 Unstable because of poor construction or heavy use. a cracked, dangerously shaky table Example sentencesExamples Although it looked a little unstable and shaky, it would last the night. I'm writing this by the moonlight of an open window at a shaky table with a broken leg. He was simply relating an event as if explaining he had spilled his coffee because the table was shaky. Synonyms unsteady, unstable, wobbly, precarious, rocky, rickety, flimsy, frail decrepit, ramshackle, dilapidated, on its last legs informal teetery British informal wonky, dicky 1.2 Not safe or reliable; liable to fail or falter. thoroughly shaky evidence after a shaky start the Scottish team made superb efforts Example sentencesExamples These unreliable claims are based on incomplete, shaky evidence. In fact, the board's support for a spring academic freedom conference has been shaky, making the organising quite precarious. The many cases in which shaky evidence was sold to the public have not just been ruses concocted by spin doctors to win over public opinion. Secondly, I think that it's on very, very shaky ground without constitutional authorization. Some were very shaky and unstable, others were convoluted, and a few were both! The second step was to jettison arguments that rested on shaky evidence. Mounting debt, accumulated over the past few years, coupled with reports of unpaid performers had put the event on shaky ground. Financially, Civil War History had continued on shaky financial grounds. The intellectual biography of the curator has to be on shaky ground. Unless a judge agrees that they fulfill a special need, the screenings will be on shaky legal ground. They then found more evidence of shaky business practices, and decided to file an official complaint against the company. The evening got off to a shaky start as our table wasn't ready, and the restaurant was unfazed by this. Those negotiations are, you know, on shaky ground now, but these are the only two parties. In Orchestra Rehearsal, the quaking building manifests the orchestra's shaky social ground. Two painkillers and some cold water later, she made her shaky way down the precarious steps into the living room. Although we now have eight parties with representation, some of the smaller ones might be on shaky ground. But start talking about who did it, and you might be on shaky ground. So with a shaky resolution and with a will that was even more frail, I took the first step. Although it's fairly obvious that he's innocent and that the evidence against him's shaky at best, the victim IDs him and he's sent to a holding cell to await trial. After this the Blues were shaky, losing too many penalty corners and unable to connect passes. Synonyms faltering, unsteady, uncertain, tentative, wobbly, wobbling, tottering, tottery, teetering, doddering, doddery, shaking, staggering unreliable, untrustworthy, questionable, dubious, doubtful, tenuous, suspect, unsubstantial, flimsy, weak, nebulous, unsound, undependable, unsupported, unsubstantiated, ungrounded, unfounded informal iffy British informal dodgy Derivatives shakily adverb ˈʃeɪkɪli Picking up her glass shakily, Adrienne takes another sip of her water and decides to let it drop. Example sentencesExamples She rose from the floor shakily, no doubt with a swimming head. He hands the glossy thing to me and I shakily accept it like a sad surrender. The maid stood up shakily and tottered down the long dark corridor, towards the nursery. His mouth opened but no sound came out, and he pointed shakily towards where he had been looking. shakiness noun ˈʃeɪkɪnəsˈʃeɪkinəs As an ex-Chief of Defence he had probably experienced at first hand the shakiness of our strategic policy foundations. Example sentencesExamples On the downside, it can cause sleeplessness, nervousness and shakiness in people whose bodies do not respond well to it. It has grown to become one of the great weird voices, up there with those of Neil Young and Little Jimmy Scott, its shakiness having evolved into style. Following reduction or cessation of use, severe intermittent symptoms of palpitations, sweating, shakiness and insomnia were alleged starting in 1989 and lasting for 2-3 years, thus outside any relevant period of cover. ‘You're lying,’ she said, responding to the shakiness of his voice. Rhymes achy, Blakey, flaky, quaky, snaky, wakey-wakey Definition of shaky in US English: shaky adjectiveˈSHākēˈʃeɪki 1Shaking or trembling. she managed a shaky laugh Example sentencesExamples The nurse came in and introduced herself, and with a shaky hand I shook hers. I took a shaky breath and with a trembling hand, I took out the paper once more, my eyes skimming over the quickly written words. He gripped the steering wheel, letting out a shaky little laugh before speaking. I let out a shaky laugh and pulled away so that I could look up at him. She touched her lips with shaky fingers, lips quivering as the tears ran past them. She managed a shaky smile, and held out a trembling hand - the one that she wasn't gripping Greg's with - for me to shake. I shook my head, pointing a shaky finger towards the box. My legs felt weak, my body shaky, and I wasn't sure whether I was hot or cold. He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky. When they parted, the two gave a small, shaky, yet happy laugh. He leaned against the table and tried to find a chair to sit on, but his legs were too shaky and weak to even bend. He still felt weak and shaky, as if he had recovered from the flu. He looked up surprised, shook his head and gave out a shaky laugh. Instead, from what I could make out over the music, her voice sounded shaky and weak. I was still feeling weak and shaky, but I wasn't worried about it. Hannah's voice trembled as she said this and she took shaky steps toward her sister's bedroom door. A shaky laugh bubbles past his lips, and dizzy words start tumbling out of him. Gavin's voice sounds miraculous, the low baritone of it trembling in my already shaky spine, and I needed him here. It's two in the afternoon, now, and I still feel shaky and weak. The old man laughed as well, a strange, shaky laugh that went along with his accent. Synonyms trembling, shaking, tremulous, quivering, quivery, unsteady, wobbly, weak faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy 1.1 Unstable because of poor construction or heavy use. a cracked, dangerously shaky table Example sentencesExamples Although it looked a little unstable and shaky, it would last the night. He was simply relating an event as if explaining he had spilled his coffee because the table was shaky. I'm writing this by the moonlight of an open window at a shaky table with a broken leg. Synonyms unsteady, unstable, wobbly, precarious, rocky, rickety, flimsy, frail 1.2 Not safe or reliable; liable to fail or falter. thoroughly shaky evidence Burns overcame a shaky start to beat the Red Sox Example sentencesExamples So with a shaky resolution and with a will that was even more frail, I took the first step. The evening got off to a shaky start as our table wasn't ready, and the restaurant was unfazed by this. The second step was to jettison arguments that rested on shaky evidence. Although it's fairly obvious that he's innocent and that the evidence against him's shaky at best, the victim IDs him and he's sent to a holding cell to await trial. In Orchestra Rehearsal, the quaking building manifests the orchestra's shaky social ground. Financially, Civil War History had continued on shaky financial grounds. They then found more evidence of shaky business practices, and decided to file an official complaint against the company. These unreliable claims are based on incomplete, shaky evidence. Unless a judge agrees that they fulfill a special need, the screenings will be on shaky legal ground. Some were very shaky and unstable, others were convoluted, and a few were both! The intellectual biography of the curator has to be on shaky ground. Secondly, I think that it's on very, very shaky ground without constitutional authorization. But start talking about who did it, and you might be on shaky ground. Two painkillers and some cold water later, she made her shaky way down the precarious steps into the living room. The many cases in which shaky evidence was sold to the public have not just been ruses concocted by spin doctors to win over public opinion. Although we now have eight parties with representation, some of the smaller ones might be on shaky ground. In fact, the board's support for a spring academic freedom conference has been shaky, making the organising quite precarious. Mounting debt, accumulated over the past few years, coupled with reports of unpaid performers had put the event on shaky ground. Those negotiations are, you know, on shaky ground now, but these are the only two parties. After this the Blues were shaky, losing too many penalty corners and unable to connect passes. Synonyms faltering, unsteady, uncertain, tentative, wobbly, wobbling, tottering, tottery, teetering, doddering, doddery, shaking, staggering unreliable, untrustworthy, questionable, dubious, doubtful, tenuous, suspect, unsubstantial, flimsy, weak, nebulous, unsound, undependable, unsupported, unsubstantiated, ungrounded, unfounded
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