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jumpy

adjective

1 informal he was tired and jumpy:

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;

British nervy;

informal with butterflies in one's stomach, 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;

British, informal strung up, stressy, windy, like a cat on hot bricks;

North American, informal spooky, squirrelly, antsy;

Australian, New Zealand, informal toey;

dated overstrung.

▷antonyms calm, relaxed.

2 jumpy black-and-white footage:

jerky, jolting;

lurching, bumpy, jarring;

fitful, convulsive;

rare jouncing.

jumpy Oxford Dictionary of English