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jumpy adjective [ ˈdʒʌmpi ]

• (of a person) anxious and uneasy.
• "he was tired and jumpy"
Similar: nervous, on edge, edgy, tense, anxious, ill at ease, unrelaxed, in a state of nerves, in a state of agitation, fretful, uneasy, restless, fidgety, worked up, keyed up, overwrought, wrought up, strung out, on tenterhooks, on pins and needles, with one's stomach in knots, worried, apprehensive, strained, shaky, shaking, trembling, quivering, nervy, a bundle of nerves, jittery, like a cat on a hot tin roof, twitchy, in a state, in a stew, uptight, wired, het up, all of a dither, all of a doodah, all of a lather, in a tizz/tizzy, stressed out, white-knuckled, strung up, stressy, windy, like a cat on hot bricks, spooky, squirrelly, antsy, toey, overstrung,
Opposite: calm, relaxed,


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