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What is the adjective for shaking?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs shake and shook which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shaky
  1. Shaking or trembling.
  2. Nervous; Anxious.
  3. (of wood) Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
  4. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The nurse came in and introduced herself, and with a shaky hand, I shook hers.”
      “He took a few shaky steps from the path they had traveled, coming to a patch of unsoiled snow.”
      “I'm writing this by the moonlight of an open window at a shaky table with a broken leg.”
shakable
  1. Able to be shaken.
  2. Designed to be shaken.
shoogly
  1. (Scotland) shaky, giddy, unsteady, rickety
shakeable
  1. Alternative spelling of shakable
shakey
  1. Alternative spelling of shaky
  2. Examples:
    1. “Indeed if my sense of intrinsic worth was this shakey, I had no business trying to sell others on that lofty notion.”
      “The shakey video shows two figures in a column of refugees fall to the ground.”
      “Okay so 3D gaming is the Holy Grail as far as most mobile game publishers and handset manufacturers are concerned, but luckily, not everyone has jumped aboard that shakey and uncertain bandwagon.”
shakeworthy
  1. (of hands, rare) Worthy to be shaken.
shakier
  1. comparative form of shaky: more shaky
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As you get older, it gets shakier to assume cognizance on points of popular culture, but there are some things that people just should know.”
      “Other groups such as the Gardai and the clergy have much shakier grounds for complaint.”
      “This shakier hand has also written out a copy of the alphabet on the facing page in the manuscript.”
shakiest
  1. superlative form of shaky: most shaky
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They have only the shakiest idea of the beliefs and principles of either.”
      “I felt as one who is about to be examined, viva voce, on the very subject in which he is shakiest.”
      “But if there is an economic recovery taking place it is built on the shakiest of foundations.”
shaken
shaking
shooked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of shook
  2. simple past tense and past participle of shake, Misspelling of shook.
shooking
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