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jumpier

jumpier is the comparative form of jumpy.

Meaning of jumpy

Adjective

jumpy (comparative jumpier, superlative jumpiest)

  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.1927 March 5, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published June 1927, →OCLC, page 281
  2. Tending to jump; full of jumps.
    • Near-synonym: saltatory
    Synonyms:
    saltatory

Questions about jumpier

What is jumpier the comparative form of?
Jumpier is the comparative form of jumpy.

Words near jumpier in the dictionary

  1. jumpeth
  2. jumpform
  3. jumpforms
  4. jumpgate
  5. jumpgates
  6. jumpier
  7. jumpiest
  8. jumpily
  9. jumpin'
  10. jumpiness
  11. jumpinesses

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