Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized by fitful, jerky movements.
- adj. On edge; nervous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Nervous and excited.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Jumping, or inducing to jump; characterized by jumps extremely nervous; jittery.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
- adj. being in a tense state
Etymologies
- From jump + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Some meds would lower his blood pressure but made him feel "jumpy" - not exactly the way you want to feel over a putt.”
“Some functions are really "jumpy" - and they might differ on an infinitesimal-by-infinitesimal level.”
“I'm described as jumpy, and it's an accurate description.”
“When I come across his name on a document it always makes me pause, it gives me pause, the name in jumpy type on some stamped document, James Nicholas Costanza, the raised stamp that marks a thing official, the document in the dusty bottom drawer, the sense of slight confusion until I realize who he is.”
“*smirk* - my word verification is ojmpyy. which sounds like "oh jumpy". which is smirkable when you know that in scotland, a jumpy is a shag”
“One unemployed person shared with me the fact that they were afraid the nervousness would show in an interview and then should he be hired, he fears he will be "jumpy," and an employer may think they hired the wrong guy.”
“It seems like most videos are kind of jumpy and jerky anyway, so that didn't bother me.”
“After a while, I got kind of jumpy sitting up in our seats and told my mother I was going for a walk.”
“Just thought I'd add my own incomprehension of 'jumpy' to this Scottish language appreciation section of the blog.”
“I disliked the book for the "jumpy" way it was written.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jumpy’.
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nauseanxious
alone/cold/dark/silent/lost
(also this list)horripilate, formication, willies, heebie-jeebies, frisson, creeping horrors, dread, butterflies, cold sweat, panicky, one's heart in on..., unease and 35 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
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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Might as well jump
Words or phrases with "jump" in them (or with the letters j-u-m-p, in that order).
jump, jumper, Jump, jumps, long jump, jump start, jumpstart, jump-start, jumper cable, jumper cables, Jump Around, jumping spider and 17 more...
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Kitten Is:
Mere days ago, I found a five-week-old kitten abandoned in the median of the Avenue we live on. She was in terrible shape, but is doing great now thanks to love and dedication.
The fo...small, hyper, bitey, silly, springy, soft, sage-eyed, tortoise shell, archy, darty, sneaky, bestriped and 27 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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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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