Definitions
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- noun the state of being
jumpy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters
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Examples
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They had stuck too close to the house, and there was a "jumpiness" and fault-finding spirit seldom manifested by the four chums.
The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand Laura Lee Hope
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Sufferers are prone to nightmares, flash backs, and levels of "jumpiness" and anxiety that can make it impossible to live a normal life.
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Applied to audio, a compressor smoothes out the "jumpiness" so the sound is more level.
doggdot.us 2008
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'jumpiness' to propel themselves to sample and learn extra new pieces of information.
A Guy In New York 2009
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"The fundamentals are pointing, many of them, in a good direction," he said, but noted that the market's jumpiness may overshadow economic optimism for the time being.
U.S. Stocks Headed for Fall on Egypt Turmoil Kristina Peterson 2011
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Nevertheless, at 6-6, Tsonga was still prone enough to jumpiness to make him the wild outsider in any tie-break.
Fed Express Fails to Deliver Giles Smith 2011
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The jumpiness has even spread to events only tangentially connected to New York, such as a false-alarm bomb scare in Portsmouth, N.H., on a Maine-to-New York bus.
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These guys were apparently just a few stupid drunks but the police response is indicative of the jumpiness the police are feeling about their personal safety.
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These guys were apparently just a few stupid drunks but the police response is indicative of the jumpiness the police are feeling about their personal safety.
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These guys were apparently just a few stupid drunks but the police response is indicative of the jumpiness the police are feeling about their personal safety.
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