jumpy
/ˈd͡ʒʌmpi/
jumpy adjective: nervous and excited.
Adjective
jumpy (comparative jumpier, superlative jumpiest)
- 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
- "I wish it was well over," admitted Hollyer. "I'm not particularly jumpy, but this gives me a touch of the creeps."1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
- Tending to jump; full of jumps.
- Near-synonym: saltatory
- 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.2018, Candice Gilmer, Ending The Curse
- Synonyms:
- saltatory
jumpy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
jumpy in Tamil
- மிரண்டு குதி
jumpy in Urdu
- کودتے ہوئے, پھلانگتے ہوئے
jumpy in Malayalam
- വെപ്രാളപ്പെട്ട, തെറിച്ചുതെറിച്ച് നീങ്ങുന്ന, പെട്ടെന്നു ഞെട്ടുക
jumpy in Kannada
- ಎದೆ ನಡುಗುವ, ಎದೆ ಹೊಡೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ, ದಿಗಿಲು ಬೀಳುವ, ಆತಂಕದ, ಅತಿ ನಡುಕದ
Examples of jumpy in a sentence
- She also reflected that a jumpy, wool-gathering wireless operator might cause less confusion ashore.
- For an hour, as the drummer David Prowse played jumpy, unflamboyant arrangements, Mr.
- It was just after the Biafran war, and all the local people were still jumpy.
Synonyms of jumpy
Forms of jumpy
| comparative | jumpier |
|---|---|
| superlative | jumpiest |
Origin of jumpy
From jump + -y.
Words formed from jumpy
Words that rhyme with jumpy
Questions about jumpy
- What does jumpy mean?
- Jumpy means nervous and excited.
- What is jumpy in Tamil?
- Jumpy in Tamil is மிரண்டு குதி. See Jumpy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is jumpy?
- Jumpy is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce jumpy?
- Jumpy is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌmpi/.
Words near jumpy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: jumpy (page history and authors); jumpy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jumpy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jumpy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jumpy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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