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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective creaky has 3 senses
- creaky(s = adj.all) decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone - worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
- creaky(s = adj.all) screaky - having a rasping or grating sound; "creaky stairs" Derived form noun creak1
- creaky(s = adj.all) arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy - of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief"
CIDE DICTIONARY
creaky, adj.
- worn down with age or use; in poor condition. [WordNet 1.5]
- producing a rasping or grating sound under some circumsatance; as, they were alerted by the creaky stairs; my creaky kitchen door needs oiling. [WordNet 1.5]
- aching when flexed; -- of body parts; as, my creaky old joints. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
creaky, adj. (creakier, creakiest)
1 liable to creak.
2 a stiff or frail (creaky joints). b (of a practice, institution, etc.) decrepit, dilapidated, outmoded.
1 liable to creak.
2 a stiff or frail (creaky joints). b (of a practice, institution, etc.) decrepit, dilapidated, outmoded.
Derivative
creakily adv. creakiness n.
ROGET THESAURUS
creaky
Weakness
N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.
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