Antonym: steady. Similar words: bumpy, lumpy, grumpy, frumpy, jump, jumper, jump out, jump at. Meaning: ['dʒʌmpɪ] adj. 1. being in a tense state 2. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.
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1. I told myself not to be so jumpy.
2. When he spoke his voice was jumpy.
3. She described Mr Hutchinson as nervous and jumpy after his wife's disappearance.
4. My mother gets very jumpy when she's alone in the house.
5. The refugees are still jumpy, although they are now in safety.
6. It was Tom Molineaux, a small, wiry, jumpy sort of person who had just graduated from Polytechnic High.
7. A hospitable host, full of charm and not jumpy, in spite of the scare.
8. He usually plays older brothers, blushing patsies, jumpy sidekicks, all-smiles Ivy Leaguers.
9. He appeared jumpy and ill at ease, ready to blurt something out at any moment.
10. During contests he was as jumpy as a schoolgirl and gave off a static charge of nervous energy.
11. The heat makes them nervous and jumpy, even in their sleep.
12. Nervous and jumpy, he was not very patient with Miss Tish when she came home from the hospital.
13. The jumpy mother always cross with her children.
14. It was beginning to make him very jumpy.
15. So what else is making investors jumpy, besides growth and inflation?
16. Creditors were also jumpy: the price of insuring Aviva's bonds against default soared.
17. Nobody is jumpy about growth , of course, but of the government's reaction to it.
18. Toning down a jumpy sympathetic nervous system will encourage a balanced sleep/wake cycle in perimenopausal women, says Dr. Yan-Go.
19. One shot by a jumpy 18-year-old in the ill-trained factory militia or one step too far by an angry marcher – or a Stasi provocation – could have triggered an explosion.
20. She was jumpy during her job interview because she was so nervous.
21. Hungry Joe a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of and bone.
22. We felt jumpy after she told us the house was haunted.
23. Some expression are mixed egoistically jumpy, hard as friendly as the person get along.
24. He was too busy thinking of the possible ramifications of a jumpy Grand Duke imagining every bush a Nihilist bear.Sentencedict
25. The recent violence is over, but it's left people feeling jumpy.
26. This is just the sort of news that makes oil traders jumpy.
27. The old lady knew that something was going to happen, and she was very jumpy.
28. The bulk of the "blue-white" file consists of a relentless catalogue of civilian shootings on nearly 100 occasions by jumpy troops at checkpoints, near bases or on convoys.
29. I knew that something was going to happen, and I was very jumpy.
30. Skip the tinsel, or move it to a high spot on your tree where your cats and dogs can't get them, warns. Put fragile ornaments at the tip-top of your tree, too, in case jumpy pets try to get to them.