shaky

adjective

1. 1

   Shaking or trembling.

   a shaky spot in a marsh

   a shaky hand

2. 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?

   Villa had plenty of opportunities to make the game safe after a shaky start and despite not reaching any great heights, they were resolute enough to take control of the game in the second half.

3. 3

   Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.

   shaky timber

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaky.

4. 4

   Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.

   a shaky constitution

   shaky business credit

   Brzozowski, arguing from a shaky factual basis, challenged both these axioms and proposed an interpretation of his own which is remarkably close to the philosophic outlook of Marx's early writings that have since come to light.

5. 5

   Wavering; undecided.

Forms

comparative

shakier

superlative

shakiest