shaky

Adjective

• not secure; beset with difficulties
  • a shaky marriage
    

• vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
  • a quaking bog
    
  • the quaking child asked for more
    
  • quivering leaves of a poplar tree
    
  • with shaking knees
    
  • seemed shaky on her feet
    
  • sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier
    
  • trembling hands
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  precarious , shivering , trembling , rickety , wobbly , wonky