Jumpy
/ˈd͡ʒʌmpi/ adj
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Nervous and excited.
"It was the butler who saw him go. Twelve o'clock at night and raining hard. So next night I was up at the house and, sure enough, master was off again. Stephens and I went after him, but it was jumpy work, for it would have been a bad job if he had seen us."
- 2 Tending to jump; full of jumps.
"We moved at a good clip, so I reached up to pull shut the window coverings, just in case this jumpy frog decided to escape."
Adjective
- 1 causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements wordnet
- 2 being in a tense state wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"I don't know why you're all so jumpy."
Etymology
From jump + -y.