[ US /ˈdʒəmpi/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈʌmpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being in a tense state
  2. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
    a rough ride
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How To Use jumpy In A Sentence

  • His eyes have a certain amount of little-boy-lost about them and his slightly nervy, jumpy presence also helps him appear a lot younger than his 43 years.
  • On a family visit to Windsor Safari Park just to get used to his new car, a jumpy old banger with steering wheel stick-shift gears, Ron was flagged down by a policeman.
  • I like the 4th & 5th from the top. and the 3rd from the top too, it reminds me of that Milton Avery waterfall at MoMA but mostly the 4th & 5th: very jumpy and active and "allover" and yet not abstract expressionist. Art made with a computer
  • ‘Tuesday Afternoon’ is constantly shifting from gloomy, melancholic folk rock to jumpy, jolly barrelhouse rock, for just a few seconds each.
  • She was always jumpy around everyone, rarely ever relaxing her guard.
  • Usually I use it to calm my nerves if I'm jumpy for some reason.
  • I told myself not to be so jumpy.
  • My palms were clammy, I was jumpy, and my parents were standing right behind me.
  • 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. Underworld
  • Old bird eyes that redbird, jumpy round rough blackbirds who have the sharper eye. 30x30
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