rickety
adjective
[ ˈrɪkɪti ]
• (of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse.
• "we went carefully up the rickety stairs"
Similar:
shaky,
unsteady,
unsound,
unsafe,
tottering,
crumbling,
decaying,
disintegrating,
tumbledown,
broken-down,
dilapidated,
ramshackle,
derelict,
ruinous,
falling to pieces,
decrepit,
shambly,
geriatric,
shacky,
rumpty,
• affected by rickets.
• "poverty was evident in undernourished faces or rickety legs"
Origin:
late 17th century: from rickets + -y1.
