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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

adrift, afloat, allergic, anemic, anile, apoplectic, arthritic, bagging, baggy, bandy, bandy-legged, bilious, blemished, bloated, bowlegged, broken-down, cancerous, chlorotic, clear, club-footed, colicky, consumptive, crabbed, dangling, debilitated, decrepit, defaced, deformed, dilapidated, disfigured, doddered, doddering, doddery, drooping, dropsical, dwarfed, dyspeptic, easy, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, feeble, flapping, flatfooted, flimsy, floating, fossilized, frail, free, gerontal, gerontic, groggy, grotesque, hanging, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, in disrepair, infirm, knock-kneed, laryngitic, lax, leprous, loose, luetic, malarial, malformed, malignant, marred, measly, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, mutilated, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, out of shape, palsied, papery-skinned, paralytic, phthisic, pigeon-toed, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, precarious, pug-nosed, rachitic, ramshackle, ravaged with age, relaxed, rheumatic, ricketish, rocky, run to seed, rusty, scorbutic, scrofulous, senile, shaky, shriveled, simous, slack, sloppy, snub-nosed, spidery, spindly, streaming, stricken in years, stumpy, swaybacked, tabetic, tabid, talipedic, teetering, teetery, timeworn, tottering, tottery, truncated, tubercular, tuberculous, tumbledown, tumorigenic, tumorous, unanchored, unbound, undone, unfastened, unfixed, unsecure, unsteady, unstuck, untied, weak, withered, wizened, wobbly

Dictionary Results for rickety:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

rickety
    adj 1: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety
           table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder
           felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though
           one of the arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky,
           wobbly, wonky]
    2: affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets;
       "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient" [syn:
       rickety, rachitic]
    3: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble
       old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit,
       debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak,
       weakly]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Rickety \Rick"et*y\, a.
   1. Affected with rickets.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
      [1913 Webster]

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