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ricketed

ricketed adjective: rickety, shaky, unsteady. Also the simple past and past participle of ricket.

Adjective (1)

ricketed (comparative more ricketed, superlative most ricketed)

  1. (dialectal) Rickety, shaky, unsteady.

Adjective (2)

ricketed (not comparable)

  1. Having the medical condition of rickets.

Also used as

ricketed is also the simple past and past participle of ricket.

Forms of ricketed

comparativemore ricketed
superlativemost ricketed

Origin of ricketed

From ricket + -ed.

From ricket(s) + -ed.

Questions about ricketed

What does ricketed mean?
Ricketed means rickety, shaky, unsteady.
What part of speech is ricketed?
Ricketed is an adjective.

Words near ricketed in the dictionary

  1. Rickersons
  2. Rickert
  3. Rickerts
  4. Rickes
  5. ricket
  6. ricketed
  7. ricketier
  8. ricketiest
  9. ricketily
  10. ricketiness
  11. ricketing

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