adjective
- likely to break or fall apart; not steady or stable
- affected by rickets; having weak or deformed bones
Usage: medical
Examples
- The rickety old chair creaked when she sat down.
- We climbed the rickety wooden stairs to the attic.
- The rickety fence swayed in the wind.
- His rickety bicycle barely made it up the hill.
- The bridge looked too rickety to cross safely.
- She lived in a rickety cottage by the lake.