Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling jazz in form or nature; rhythmical.
- adj. Slang Showy; flashy: a jazzy car.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. resembling jazz{1} especially in its rhythm.
- adj. ostentatious or strikingly styled; -- used especially of clothes.
- adj. marked by animation or performed with flair[2].
WordNet 3.0
- adj. resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm)
- adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
Examples
“Music » Guest musician Cho-Liang Lin presents a bill of what he calls jazzy, beautiful works.”
“We made our way up to the second floor lounge to enjoy drinks while a live band played Disney tunes in jazzy arrangements.”
“Question of the day: Which will be easier to revive, the word jazzy, or...jazz?”
“Gulls loop above the boardwalk in jazzy little arcs.”
“As Rabbi Steven Wise wrote in 1924, “Jazz is one of the inevitable expressions of what might be called the jazzy morale of mood of America . . . when America regains its soul, jazz will go, not before—that is to say, it will be relegated to the dark and scarlet haunts whence it came and whither unwept it will return, after America’s soul is reborn.””
“Still, the Warner pre-Codes have a certain jazzy verve, and even when they’re awful the short running times ensure minimal pain.”
“It looked way too jazzy, which is how contemporary dancers often look dancing Latin to me.”
“Many of them speak a jazzy, Big Easy patois, which sounds a bit Texan, a bit southern, and a bit French, but with a New Yorky edge—like a laid-back Brooklynite faking a southern and a French accent at the same time.”
“Here's a good one -- known as the jazzy-jump," he exclaimed.”
“Yeah, I guess you could say the mahogany body is rather 'jazzy'-looking ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jazzy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
funky, pedal, bebop, rap, mix, sub, mid, rag, ECM, bpm, bop, Afro and 437 more...
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 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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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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whatever1013's Words
chocolate, sesquipedalophobia, discombobulated, callipygian, retronym, squirm, cobalt blue, plethora, onomatopoeia, blowhard, strumpet, shush and 173 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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Foxtrot's list
afternoon delight, almost unreal, full of spark, dazzle n daze, alarming stride, rushing tide, double dagger, in the nude, constant pressure, widow maker, bourbon on the rocks, air fare holme and 311 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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brand
fossa, treasure, huzzah, humdinger, watusi, axite, wigwam, elixir, souse, ampersand, powwow, kaleidoscope and 4 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, J
jaggery, juju, jackanapes, jasper, jazzy, jostle, jaywalk, jerky, jawbone, jersey, jaw, junction and 83 more...
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Master Word List
I like words for different reasons. I like some words for the way they sound. I like others for what they mean. Still others, I like because they remind me of the people who use them often. This li...
convivial, adroit, banal, bangle, capricious, castigate, chimera, elucidate, engender, equivocal, fetter, flux and 27 more...
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Double zee
fizzle, dazzle, gizzard, jazz, mozzarella, nozzle, puzzle, sizzle, buzz, dizzy, fizzy, fizz and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for jazzy.
madmouth not to be confused with jazz. If a song's said to have a 'jazzy sort of tune to it'--run. Jun 6, 2009
bilby "Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (A bout de souffle) helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same."
- theauteurs.com.
Jun 5, 2009