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Synonyms for jerky
ˈdʒɜr kijerky
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Princeton's WordNet
jerky, jerked meat, jerkadjective
meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
Synonyms:
saccade, jerk, dork, jerking, jerked meat, jolt, tugarrhythmic, jerking, jerkyadjective
lacking a steady rhythm
"an arrhythmic heartbeat"
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choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, jerking, goosey, arrhythmical, arrhythmic, goosy, gooselikechoppy, jerkyadjective
marked by abrupt transitions
"choppy prose"
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choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, jerking, goosey, arrhythmic, goosy, gooselikeanserine, 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"
Synonyms:
jerking, choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, goosy, goosey, arrhythmic, gooselike
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
jerkyadjective
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abrupt, unconnected
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "jerky":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#8618 | dried | |
#14556 | jerk | |
#16072 | foolish | |
#18677 | jerking | |
#20230 | tug | |
#28820 | jolt | |
#30769 | jerky | |
#32582 | dork | |
#47646 | choppy | |
#73830 | dopey | |
#108153 | saccade | |
#175362 | goosey | |
#176916 | arrhythmic |
How to use jerky in a sentence?
Everything you do is very gentle, you don’t want to do jerky motions ever.
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.
His skin had fallen off his body. There were huge chunks of skin on the sauna floor. He literally looked like jerky.
He was totally broiled, his skin had fallen off his body. There were huge chunks of skin on the sauna floor. He literally looked like jerky.
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.
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