Antonyms for jumpy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : juhm-pee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒʌm pi

Definition of jumpy

Origin : "nervous," 1869, from jump (n.) + -y (2). Related: Jumpiness.

adj nervous

Example sentences :

These books are only good to muddle your head and make you jumpy.
Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad

But Edna and Mrs. Pulsifer acted sort of restless and jumpy.
Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford

First off she's inclined to be nervous and jumpy and don't want to talk about Babe at all.
Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford

When that condition bettered, and he began to feel again, he was nervous and jumpy.
Extract from : « The Rich Little Poor Boy » by Eleanor Gates

Alan felt tense and jumpy, and hoped not too much of it showed.
Extract from : « Starman's Quest » by Robert Silverberg

When I was a mass of bruises and aches, to say nothing of jumpy nerves.
Extract from : « The Lady of the Basement Flat » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

It certainly makes one jumpy to have one's relations in the army.
Extract from : « A Patriotic Schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil

Girls are often jumpy, but not often quite so easily overcome, Jane thought.
Extract from : « Jane Allen: Center » by Edith Bancroft

Ive been jumpy as a cat with eight of its lives gone for the past year.
Extract from : « Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin » by Dorothy Wayne

Weeks of espionage at Blaauwildebeestefontein had made me jumpy.
Extract from : « Prester John » by John Buchan

Synonyms for jumpy

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