1
as in excitable
easily excited by nature
a jumpy little terrier
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2
as in worried
feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty
flight attendants had to calm jumpy passengers after the plane hit unexpected turbulence
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Recent Examples of jumpy
No wonder Lake County Congressman Brad Schneider of Highland Park and other Illinois Dems are jumpy.
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
The chef, an unauthorized immigrant himself, was fielding questions from a jumpy staff.
—Brett Anderson, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
The film itself was very badly damaged; some of the perforations had been ripped and the footage was distractingly jumpy.
—Joseph Strauss, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
Getting jumpy with it In tests, the mice responded dramatically to VR clips of a dark shape moving toward them.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
The chef, an unauthorized immigrant himself, was fielding questions from a jumpy staff.
—Brett Anderson, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
The film itself was very badly damaged; some of the perforations had been ripped and the footage was distractingly jumpy.
—Joseph Strauss, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
Getting jumpy with it In tests, the mice responded dramatically to VR clips of a dark shape moving toward them.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jumpy
Adjective
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Groups of excitable teenage boys waited their turn to play EA FC on a bank of massive flat screen TVs.—
James Montague,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Wisner was an excitable workaholic, like a squirrel pointlessly leaping in all directions.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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However, because the pool was shallow, Lisberg was less worried.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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While Herzig is hoping to win a million dollars, his guests are all worried about their own various fantasy teams, mostly competing for a few hundred bucks.—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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The price of gold tends to move when markets get nervous – and so does the gold.—
Ken Roberts,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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It should also be noted that Demings is more than a little nervous right now about making any public promises about helping to finance a baseball stadium.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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In the novel’s historical re-creation, is there an anxious note to Americans now losing themselves in accommodation?—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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An inaccurate diagnosis might lead to unnecessary or risky treatment, and a false positive can cause stress by requiring additional tests and anxious waits for results.—
Max Votek,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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Stage 1: In this stage, inflammation, as well as loose or unstable joints, is present.—
Isabel Casimiro,
Verywell Health,
22 May 2025
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Unfortunately, modeling variations on this orbit through time indicated that 98 percent of them were unstable within 50 million years.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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Santa Margarita 6, Huntington Beach 5: Chase Marlow singled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning to give the Eagles an upset over Sunset League champion Huntington Beach.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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Tuchman and Chang also address fans who are particularly upset about Nick's arc this season.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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Today, hydrogen bombs have replaced atom bombs in most arsenals, creating a world of uneasy standoffs among nuclear foes.—
William J. Broad,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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With the rage virus still raging, a group of survivors, including a husband and wife played by Jodie Comer and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, lives in uneasy isolation on a fortified island — until one of them crosses the causeway into whatever’s left of the mainland.—
Greg Braxton,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Devil’s Play follows Iva (Ivanova), a troubled teenager trapped between an abusive stepfather (Stretch) and a distant, deaf mother (Tenekedjieva).—
The Deadline Team,
Deadline,
18 May 2025
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This was not an isolated incident: since its troubled 2019 launch, AP Classroom has been plagued by glitches, confusing user interfaces, and reliability issues.—
Scott White,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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“Jumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jumpy. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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