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jankier

jankier is the comparative form of janky.

Meaning of janky

Adjective (1)

janky (comparative jankier, superlative jankiest)

  1. (informal, slang) Of poor quality.
    • It's barely holding together, it's so janky.
  2. (slang) Strange, odd.
    • “And look, they don't even call them cigarettes. They call them fun tubes.” “Well, I guess,” said Hillary. “Talk about a janky role model. Candy cigarettes.”2006, Sarah Ellis, Odd Man Out, Toronto: Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 97
  3. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Untrustworthy, disreputable.
    • Janky promoters trying to fuck up my lil' image / They fucked us over, only way you get the picture2017, “Knew Boosie”, in Money Changes Everything, performed by 03 Greedo

Adjective (2)

janky (comparative jankier, superlative jankiest)

  1. (colloquial) Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
    • While the asynchronous HTTP call is running on a background thread (preventing a janky UI, or ANRs), the user can navigate away from the activity after the request has been sent but before the response has been received by the device.2016, Adam Stroud, Android Database Best Practices, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN

Questions about jankier

What is jankier the comparative form of?
Jankier is the comparative form of janky.

Words near jankier in the dictionary

  1. janken
  2. Jankent
  3. janker
  4. jankers
  5. Jankes
  6. jankier
  7. jankiest
  8. jankily
  9. jankiness
  10. Jankipuram
  11. Janklow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jankier (page history and authors); janky (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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