knee-jerkish
knee-jerkish adjective: exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response.
Adjective
knee-jerkish (comparative more knee-jerkish, superlative most knee-jerkish)
- Exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response.
- Thus to judge their heart-felt reactions, some of which may look "knee-jerkish" at times, without taking into account their past bitter experiences, their present insecurities, or their dreams would be presumptuous, to say the least.1990, Kurdistan Times, numbers 1-3, page 230
- It seemed a little knee-jerkish anyway, too obvious for the neighbor across the street to do, and a little too much like adolescent vandalism for my own conscience.2001, Terry Osborne, Sightlines: The View of a Valley Through the Voice of Depression, University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 39
- Synonyms:
- knee-jerky
Synonyms of knee-jerkish
Forms of knee-jerkish
| comparative | more knee-jerkish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most knee-jerkish |
Origin of knee-jerkish
From knee-jerk + -ish.
Words formed from knee-jerkish
Questions about knee-jerkish
- What does knee-jerkish mean?
- Knee-jerkish means exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response.
- What part of speech is knee-jerkish?
- Knee-jerkish is an adjective.
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