Definition of rickety in English:

rickety

adjective ˈrɪkɪtiˈrɪkɪdi

1(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse.
（建筑物，设备）摇摇晃晃的，摇摇欲坠的
we went carefully up the rickety stairs
我们小心翼翼地走上摇摇晃晃的楼梯。
figurative a rickety banking system
〈喻〉脆弱的银行体系。
Example sentencesExamples
- And there's a further subtext to Tomb Raider - that rickety Third World technology is no match for the might of imperialist implements of destruction.
- And despite the best efforts of the socialist government, large-scale commercialisation overshadows the country's rickety network of tour operators.
- We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open.
- Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station.
- Likewise, when they compare the high-speed TGV to the rickety transport system we have here, the value of a strong, responsible state becomes apparent.
- While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables.
- You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More.
- Alternatively, you can always stay at our pension, Na Louzi, which is truly Bohemian, a woody little place with rickety stairs and a dozen styles of ancient door lock and handle.
- We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer.
- But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries.
- She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift.
- Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned.
- That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties.
- He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda.
- After decades of rickety governments cobbled together from small parties, the 1997 constitution encourages larger and more stable groupings.
- Climbing the rickety wooden stairs we were welcomed into the company of the pipe player, impressive in his traditional costume, his cheeks puffed from the playing of his bagpipes.
- Meanwhile Tent City, the rickety collection of 50 squatter homes on the waterfront, was cleared away, and residents were offered temporary housing.
- Rather, poorly lit stairways, rickety bed frames, dirty sex aids and repetitive movement injuries are among the chief dangers brothel workers face in New South Wales.
- And while there is some room for growth in this figure, we can guess that the system is a bit rickety and could be easily overwhelmed if the effort was concentrated.
- Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting!
Synonyms
shaky, unsteady, unsound, unsafe, tottering, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, tumbledown, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit
informal shambly, geriatric
North American informal shacky
Australian/New Zealand informal rumpty
2Affected by rickets.
poverty was evident in undernourished faces or rickety legs

Derivatives

ricketiness

noun

Although its technology is state-of-the-art, the impression of ricketiness gives you a real old-time thrill.

Origin

Late 17th century: from rickets + -y¹.

Rickety is based on mid 17th-century rickets, a disease in children due to vitamin D deficiency, causing bow legs, a name with an obscure origin.

Rhymes

pernickety

Definition of rickety in US English:

rickety

adjectiveˈrɪkɪdiˈrikidē

1(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse.
（建筑物，设备）摇摇晃晃的，摇摇欲坠的
we went carefully up the rickety stairs
我们小心翼翼地走上摇摇晃晃的楼梯。
figurative a rickety banking system
〈喻〉脆弱的银行体系。
Example sentencesExamples
- We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open.
- Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting!
- Likewise, when they compare the high-speed TGV to the rickety transport system we have here, the value of a strong, responsible state becomes apparent.
- And there's a further subtext to Tomb Raider - that rickety Third World technology is no match for the might of imperialist implements of destruction.
- After decades of rickety governments cobbled together from small parties, the 1997 constitution encourages larger and more stable groupings.
- Climbing the rickety wooden stairs we were welcomed into the company of the pipe player, impressive in his traditional costume, his cheeks puffed from the playing of his bagpipes.
- Alternatively, you can always stay at our pension, Na Louzi, which is truly Bohemian, a woody little place with rickety stairs and a dozen styles of ancient door lock and handle.
- He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda.
- That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties.
- You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More.
- Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station.
- We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer.
- Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned.
- But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries.
- Meanwhile Tent City, the rickety collection of 50 squatter homes on the waterfront, was cleared away, and residents were offered temporary housing.
- While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables.
- And despite the best efforts of the socialist government, large-scale commercialisation overshadows the country's rickety network of tour operators.
- Rather, poorly lit stairways, rickety bed frames, dirty sex aids and repetitive movement injuries are among the chief dangers brothel workers face in New South Wales.
- And while there is some room for growth in this figure, we can guess that the system is a bit rickety and could be easily overwhelmed if the effort was concentrated.
- She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift.
Synonyms
shaky, unsteady, unsound, unsafe, tottering, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, tumbledown, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit
2(of a person) suffering from rickets.
（人）患佝偻病的

Origin

Late 17th century: from rickets + -y.

词汇	rickety
释义	Definition of rickety in English: rickety adjective ˈrɪkɪtiˈrɪkɪdi 1(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse. （建筑物，设备）摇摇晃晃的，摇摇欲坠的 we went carefully up the rickety stairs 我们小心翼翼地走上摇摇晃晃的楼梯。 figurative a rickety banking system 〈喻〉脆弱的银行体系。 Example sentencesExamples And there's a further subtext to Tomb Raider - that rickety Third World technology is no match for the might of imperialist implements of destruction. And despite the best efforts of the socialist government, large-scale commercialisation overshadows the country's rickety network of tour operators. We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open. Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station. Likewise, when they compare the high-speed TGV to the rickety transport system we have here, the value of a strong, responsible state becomes apparent. While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables. You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More. Alternatively, you can always stay at our pension, Na Louzi, which is truly Bohemian, a woody little place with rickety stairs and a dozen styles of ancient door lock and handle. We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer. But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries. She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift. Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned. That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties. He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda. After decades of rickety governments cobbled together from small parties, the 1997 constitution encourages larger and more stable groupings. Climbing the rickety wooden stairs we were welcomed into the company of the pipe player, impressive in his traditional costume, his cheeks puffed from the playing of his bagpipes. Meanwhile Tent City, the rickety collection of 50 squatter homes on the waterfront, was cleared away, and residents were offered temporary housing. Rather, poorly lit stairways, rickety bed frames, dirty sex aids and repetitive movement injuries are among the chief dangers brothel workers face in New South Wales. And while there is some room for growth in this figure, we can guess that the system is a bit rickety and could be easily overwhelmed if the effort was concentrated. Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting! Synonyms shaky, unsteady, unsound, unsafe, tottering, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, tumbledown, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit informal shambly, geriatric North American informal shacky Australian/New Zealand informal rumpty 2Affected by rickets. poverty was evident in undernourished faces or rickety legs Derivatives ricketiness noun Although its technology is state-of-the-art, the impression of ricketiness gives you a real old-time thrill. Origin Late 17th century: from rickets + -y¹. Rickety is based on mid 17th-century rickets, a disease in children due to vitamin D deficiency, causing bow legs, a name with an obscure origin. Rhymes pernickety Definition of rickety in US English: rickety adjectiveˈrɪkɪdiˈrikidē 1(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse. （建筑物，设备）摇摇晃晃的，摇摇欲坠的 we went carefully up the rickety stairs 我们小心翼翼地走上摇摇晃晃的楼梯。 figurative a rickety banking system 〈喻〉脆弱的银行体系。 Example sentencesExamples We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open. Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting! Likewise, when they compare the high-speed TGV to the rickety transport system we have here, the value of a strong, responsible state becomes apparent. And there's a further subtext to Tomb Raider - that rickety Third World technology is no match for the might of imperialist implements of destruction. After decades of rickety governments cobbled together from small parties, the 1997 constitution encourages larger and more stable groupings. Climbing the rickety wooden stairs we were welcomed into the company of the pipe player, impressive in his traditional costume, his cheeks puffed from the playing of his bagpipes. Alternatively, you can always stay at our pension, Na Louzi, which is truly Bohemian, a woody little place with rickety stairs and a dozen styles of ancient door lock and handle. He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda. That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties. You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More. Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station. We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer. Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned. But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries. Meanwhile Tent City, the rickety collection of 50 squatter homes on the waterfront, was cleared away, and residents were offered temporary housing. While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables. And despite the best efforts of the socialist government, large-scale commercialisation overshadows the country's rickety network of tour operators. Rather, poorly lit stairways, rickety bed frames, dirty sex aids and repetitive movement injuries are among the chief dangers brothel workers face in New South Wales. And while there is some room for growth in this figure, we can guess that the system is a bit rickety and could be easily overwhelmed if the effort was concentrated. She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift. Synonyms shaky, unsteady, unsound, unsafe, tottering, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, tumbledown, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit 2(of a person) suffering from rickets. （人）患佝偻病的 Origin Late 17th century: from rickets + -y.
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