shakyadjective
uk/ˈʃeɪ.ki/us/ˈʃeɪ.ki/shaky adjective (MOVEMENT)
moving with quick, short movements from side to side, not in a controlled way:
Soon after it was born, the calf got up and tried to stand on its shaky legs.
The child wrote her name in large shaky letters.
She's recovering well from her operation, but she's still a little shaky on her feet.
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Making short, sudden movements
- aquiver
- convulse
- convulsion
- convulsive
- cringe
- flick
- jerky
- jig
- jiggle
- jolt
- judder
- palpitate
- pull away
- quiver
- shivery
- shrink
- tremulous
- whip
- worry at sth
- wriggle
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shaky adjective (UPSET)
upset:
The news left me feeling a little shaky.
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- moody
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- wretched
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shaky adjective (WEAK)
not firm or strong:
The building's foundations are rather shaky, and it could collapse at any time.
We are taking these steps to try to improve the country's shaky economy.
Their marriage looks pretty shaky to me.
I think you're on very shaky ground with that argument.
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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Unsafe and insecure
shakily
adverb uk/ˈʃeɪ.kəl.i/us/ˈʃeɪ.kəl.i/
The old man stood up and walked shakily across the room.
shakiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈʃeɪ.ki.nəs/us/ˈʃeɪ.ki.nəs/