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ricketiness

/rik-i-tee/US // ˈrɪk ɪ ti //UK // (ˈrɪkɪtɪ) //

佝偻病,佝偻症,板球,佝偻病症

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    rick·et·i·er, rick·et·i·est.

    • : likely to fall or collapse; shaky: a rickety chair.
    • : feeble in the joints; tottering; infirm: a rickety old man.
    • : old, dilapidated, or in disrepair.
    • : irregular, as motion or action.
    • : affected with or having rickets.
    • : relating to or of the nature of rickets.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noununstableness
Synonyms
alternation交替,交变,交替进行,交替使用anxiety焦虑,忧虑,焦虑不安,担忧capriciousness任性,任性妄为,任意性,摩羯座changeability变化性,可变性,变动性,易变性changeableness变化性,变动性,多变性,变化无常disequilibrium非平衡性,不平衡性,非平衡态,非平衡disquiet忧虑,烦躁不安,焦虑,不安fickleness浮躁,善变,无常,薄情寡义fitfulness疲软,疲惫,疲惫不堪,恶性循环flightiness飞行能力,飞行性,飞行,飞扬跋扈fluctuation波动性,波动fluidity流动性frailty体弱,虚弱,体弱多病,体质hesitation犹豫不决,踌躇,迟疑,疑虑immaturity不成熟,不成熟度,不成熟性,不成熟的人impermanence无常,无常态,无生无灭,无生inconsistency矛盾的地方,不一致,矛盾性,矛盾inquietude不安的情绪,不安,不安静,不安宁insecurity不安全感,不安全,不安全因素,缺乏安全感instability不稳定,不稳定因素,不稳定性,不稳irregularity违规行为,违规现象,违规,不规则性irresolution抵抗力,抵抗,拒绝,拒绝接受mutability可变性,易变性,突变性,变异性oscillation震荡,振荡,发振,摆动pliancy柔韧度,柔软性,柔软度,柔韧性precariousness不稳定因素,不稳定,不稳定性,不稳定状态restlessness烦躁不安,躁动不安,躁动,烦躁shakiness颤抖,抖动,颤颤巍巍,颤动transience瞬息万变,暂时性,瞬时性,暂时性的uncertainty不确定性,不确定,不确定因素,不明朗unpredictability变化莫测,变化无常,不可预测性,不可预测unreliability不可靠,不可靠的,不靠谱,不可靠性unsteadiness不稳定,不稳,不稳定的,不稳定因素vacillation摇摆不定,摇摆,犹豫不决,游移不定variability可变性,变异性,变化性,易变性volatility挥发性,波动性,波动,挥发vulnerability脆弱性,漏洞,脆弱,脆弱程度wavering摇摆不定,摇摆不定的,飘忽不定,犹豫不决weakness弱点,虚弱,弱势,虚弱性unfixedness无固定性,不固定性,非固定性,无定势性wobbliness摇摆不定,摇摆性,晃动,晃动性

Examples

  • It’s also hilarious that this attempt at stabilizing its rickety notions of amateurism will force schools to become even more like businesses.

  • From rickety old strap-on blades to state-of-the-art high-performance skates, the range of options fits, and purposes are pretty vast.

  • The pioneers, rolling in rickety wagons across the prairie with all of their earthly possessions, headed for a better life.

  • The rickety elevator was a bit scary, making the tiny top floor apartment in Rome’s Monti neighborhood more of a sixth-floor walkup.

  • She looks at you and then points to a rickety wooden boat about twenty-five meters from where you stand.

  • There were taxis, called “hackneys,” which were rickety stagecoaches cast off by the rich and repurposed as transport for hire.

  • Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up.

  • The going rate for life jackets on board the dangerously rickety vessels tops $200, whether for men, women or children.

  • "Yeah, all right," he mutters, then follows his brothers out of the room, down a rickety flight of stairs and into the crucible.

  • In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.

  • So saying the lively urchin grasped his new friend by the hand and led him by a rickety staircase to the “rookeries” above.

  • This problem was solved by a native coming along driving a raw-boned horse before a rickety wagon.

  • He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.

  • On one side loomed a huge tank, to the brink of which a rickety wooden ladder invited the explorer to ascend.