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wobbly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wobbly has 1 sense
- wobbly(n = noun.person) Array - a member of the Industrial Workers of the World; Array is a kind of radical
Adjective wobbly has 1 sense
- wobbly(s = adj.all) rickety, shaky, wonky - 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" Derived form noun wobble1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wobbly, adj. (wobblier, wobbliest)
1 wobbling or tending to wobble.
2 wavy, undulating (a wobbly line).
3 unsteady; weak after illness (feeling wobbly).
4 wavering, vacillating, insecure (the economy was wobbly).
1 wobbling or tending to wobble.
2 wavy, undulating (a wobbly line).
3 unsteady; weak after illness (feeling wobbly).
4 wavering, vacillating, insecure (the economy was wobbly).
Idiom
throw a wobbly sl. have a fit of nerves.
Derivative
wobbliness n.
THESAURUS
wobbly
aspen, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chattering, choppy, desultory, deviative, dickey, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinuous, doddering, eccentric, erratic, faltering, fitful, flickering, fluctuant, fluctuating, groggy, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, hesitant, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, insecure, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, jerky, lurching, nonuniform, oscillating, oscillatory, palsied, patchy, pendulating, quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering, quivery, rachitic, rackety, rambling, ramshackle, rattletrap, ricketish, rickety, rocky, rootless, rough, scrappy, shaking, shaky, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shivering, shivery, shuddering, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spidery, spindly, sporadic, spotty, staggering, succussatory, succussive, teetering, teetery, tentative, tottering, tottery, trembling, trembly, tremulous, tumbledown, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure, unsystematic, vacillating, vacillatory, variable, veering, vibrating, wandering, wavering, weak, wobbling
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