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shaky

/ˈʃeɪki/

shaky adjective: shaking or trembling.

Adjective

shaky (comparative shakier, superlative shakiest)

  1. Shaking or trembling.
    • a shaky spot in a marsh
    • a shaky hand
  2. Nervous, anxious.
    • He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.
    • For the college clinician, restless nights after letting a shaky student walk out of the office are an occupational hazard. Are the student's safety assurances credible? Will he or she make it safely through the weekend?2006, Paul A. Grayson, Philip W. Meilman, College Mental Health Practice, page 11
  3. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
    • shaky timber
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaky.
  4. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
    • a shaky constitution
    • shaky business credit
  5. Wavering; undecided.

shaky meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

shaky in Hindi

shaky, shaking
डगमग ḍagmag

shaky in Tamil

உறுதியற்ற, தடுமாறுகிற, நடுங்குகிற, நிலையற்ற

shaky in Urdu

متزلزل

shaky in Malayalam

കുലുക്കമുള്ള, ചലനമുള്ള, ഉലച്ചിലുള്ള
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shaky in Kannada
ದುರ್ಬಲವಾದ, ಅಸ್ಥಿರವಾದ, ಭದ್ರವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಅಲ್ಲಾಡುವ

Examples of shaky in a sentence

  • It was written in a shaky backhand.
  • It seems to me that "grass seed capital of the world" is a fairly shaky claim to fame.
  • He got off to a shaky start, but with a few months of experience under his belt, he kept up handily with the veteran employees.

All 34 example sentences with shaky

Synonyms of shaky

All synonyms of shaky

Forms of shaky

comparativeshakier
superlativeshakiest

Origin of shaky

From shake + -y.

Words formed from shaky

Words that rhyme with shaky

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about shaky

What does shaky mean?
Shaky means shaking or trembling.
What is shaky in Hindi?
Shaky in Hindi is डगमग (ḍagmag). See Shaky meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is shaky?
Shaky is an adjective.
How do you pronounce shaky?
Shaky is pronounced /ˈʃeɪki/.

Words near shaky in the dictionary

  1. Shakuni
  2. Shakuntala
  3. Shakur
  4. Shakurs
  5. shakus
  6. shaky
  7. Shakya
  8. Shakyamuni
  9. Shakyamuni Buddha
  10. Shakyas
  11. shakycam

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shaky (page history and authors); डगमग (Hindi) (page history and authors); shaky (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shaky (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shaky (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shaky (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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