Antonyms for jerky
ˈdʒɜr kijerky

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1. jerky, jerked meat, jerkadjective

   meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

   Antonyms:
   smart, gradual, steady

   Synonyms:
   saccade, jerk, dork, jerking, jerked meat, jolt, tug

2. arrhythmic, jerking, jerkyadjective

   lacking a steady rhythm

   "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

   Antonyms:
   steady, gradual, smart

   Synonyms:
   choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, jerking, goosey, arrhythmical, arrhythmic, goosy, gooselike

3. choppy, jerkyadjective

   marked by abrupt transitions

   "choppy prose"

   Antonyms:
   smart, gradual, steady

   Synonyms:
   choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, jerking, goosey, arrhythmic, goosy, gooselike

4. anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerkyadjective

   having or revealing stupidity

   "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

   Antonyms:
   smart, steady, gradual

   Synonyms:
   jerking, choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, goosy, goosey, arrhythmic, gooselike

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1. jerkyadjective

   Synonyms:
   abrupt, unconnected

How to use jerky in a sentence?

1. Patrick Markey:

   The general story is people who play video games right after might be a little hopped up and jerky but it doesnt fundamentally alter who they are, it is like going to see a sad movie. It might make you cry but it doesnt make you clinically depressed.

2. Robert Hamilton:

   Everything you do is very gentle, you don’t want to do jerky motions ever.

3. Russ Versaggi of Tampa:

   It was a little herky-jerky, a little abrupt at times, but never felt threatened, never feel endangered here at all.

4. Jeremy Barr:

   I was happy that we were able to achieve what I think both Dean and A.G. really wanted to achieve, which was a really sort of intentional transition process that allowed me, but also a team of people who will now move into fresh positions in newsroom leadership, to really have time to work closely together, so many transitions in the past, in fact the majority of them, have taken place in a somewhat herky-jerky or unexpected way, where something happens, somebody departs suddenly, someone is dismissed from the job.

5. Author Levitt:

   If you try to envision how life evolved from the first organic molecules, it had to have been a herky-jerky process, full of twisted pathways and failures, most of them must have gone nowhere. But evolution has a way of creating winners from countless experiments over long periods of time.

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