Synonyms for knee-jerk
knee-jerk

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1. knee-jerknoun

   Synonyms:
   patellar reflex, kneejerk reflex

2. knee-jerkadjective

   Automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable

   He gave a knee-jerk response.

   Synonyms:
   kneejerk reflex, patellar reflex

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1. List of paraphrases for "knee-jerk":

   instinctive, impulsive, visceral, reflex, ill-considered, reflexive, unthinking, predictable

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1. Rajesh Paharia Jain:

   The rise in wheat price was rather moderate, and Indian prices are still substantially lower than global prices, wheat prices in some parts of the country had jumped to the current level even last year, so the move to ban export is nothing but a knee-jerk reaction.

2. James Clark:

   In every urban core you have the same mentality that is on display in St Louis right now. In St Louis, we have a human capital crisis where you have men, women, boys and girls who have not been cultivated to care, so, violence becomes a knee-jerk reaction.

3. Brad McMillan:

   There was a knee-jerk reaction to the Trump Jr emails, but it's a not a problem today, so the reaction was overstated.

4. Paul Ryan:

   Those of us around Paul Ryan really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time, we helped Paul Ryan make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what Paul Ryan knee-jerk reaction was. Now I think Paul Ryan's making some of these knee-jerk reactions.

5. Denise Scott-McDonald:

   We feel that the government did a knee-jerk reaction to the crisis.