Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of jar.
- n. An act of jarring (in any sense).
- adj. That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Shaking; disturbing; discordant.
- n. A shaking; a tremulous motion.
- n. Discord; a clashing of interests.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. making or causing a harsh and irritating sound
Examples
“That comment about finding grammatical errors "jarring" is just a bit overboard, don't you think?”
“An example: If I were to rip out the music portion of Far Cry 2 and replace it with nothing or something completely irrelevant and jarring, is that not going to change the experience of the game?”
“Thomas Jane being gone is a big loss, as I find movies with sequels that don't have the same actors are way to fuckin 'jarring for my taste.”
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“I think his point about the two movies within the movie jarring is dead-on. (”
“But at times the jokes are almost jarring, which is unexpected, because I've worked with cadavers for a couple years now.”
“But the question is: Do they need what Churchill called a jarring gong of self-preservation?”
“More distinctly he recalled the jarring bang, accompanied by the metallic click of the latch, when the girl had shut herself in -- and him out.”
“With inaudible steps she went quickly to the sick man's bedside, and going up so that he had not to turn his head, she immediately clasped in her fresh young hand the skeleton of his huge hand, pressed it, and began speaking with that soft eagerness, sympathetic and not jarring, which is peculiar to women.”
“The solid brown is kind of jarring next to the pattern in the background.”
“The "boys" is kind of jarring, but isn't it pretty much exactly what Obama was saying in San Francisco?”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘jarring’.
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1907 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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hypomania, hypomanic, complementary, deem, problematic, volatile, mercurial, unaccompanied, counterpart, irritability, hyperthymia, violent and 130 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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Slings and Arrows: Shakespearean Insults
artless, baudy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant and 116 more...
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gre
histrionics, flamboyant, prevarication, verbiage, shun, aphorism, pithy, terse, contemporary, vertebra, ignominy, haggle and 96 more...
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lovely words
beloved, calm, coat, chamber, compass, crystalline, dire, duvet, depth, depths, delve, delved and 58 more...
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I'd like to use these words more
jarring, stunning, habitually, mull, markedly, rigamorole, rigmarole, placate, higgledy-piggledy, fearsome, throw light, clear-eyed and 68 more...
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sounds good to me
peccable, succinct, jarring, murmur, delectable, languid, guttural, resonance, ineffable, evoke
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Noises
rattling, jarring, rumbling, shriek, croak, chuckle, sultry, belt
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