Antonyms for jostling

Grammar : Verb

Spell : jos-uh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɒs əl

Definition of jostling

Origin : 1540s, justle, "to knock against," formed from jousten (see joust) + frequentative suffix -tle. The usual spelling 17c.-18c. was justle. An earlier meaning of the word was "to have sex with" (c.1400). Meaning "to contend for the best position or place" is from 1610s. Related: Jostled; jostling. As a noun from c.1600.

verb bump, shake

Example sentences :

There was no scrambling or jostling for the hot water, no ill humour, no quarrelling.
Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

Her brain was crowded with jostling thoughts, her heart with jostling feelings and fears.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

And yet they were fighting their way, jostling each other in order to get first to the front.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

And it was there that Sandoz came upon him, amid the jostling.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

There's no occasion for jostling, there's room for everyone.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

That would be too much to look for in a jostling, market-day world like ours.
Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The jostling crowd brimmed her eyes; she walked as one in a mist.
Extract from : « In the Border Country » by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Anchors and cables were powerless to hold the crowded, jostling ships.
Extract from : « The Story of the Barbary Corsairs » by Stanley Lane-Poole

Inside, the aisles were packed with a jostling, slowly moving throng.
Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely

To land the guns through the jostling sea was the next task.
Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut

Synonyms for jostling

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