glitchy
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˈɡlɪtʃi/
- Informal
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con fallos
- The video playback was glitchy, making it hard to follow the storyline.
I have observed a few glitchy UI bugs but no performance bugs so far.
- I have observed a few glitchy UI bugs but no performance bugs so far.
- And what they realized is that people were staying on for hours even though it was a crappy glitchy website and that the Myspace just had a better website.
- It occurred to me the other day because my phone was getting glitchy and I thought to myself, when's the last time I turned this thing off?
- These are all very glitchy, and they're of course meant to.
Examples
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The navigation on the app has been kind of glitchy tonight.
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Swiping through month view on the iPhone is glitchy.
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And then the radio went glitchy, so I just need to get down and use a phone.
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You know, sometimes those things can be a little glitchy.
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I had a little delivery issue since my internet was glitchy, but the owner helped ASAP.
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Smile is awful, non-user-friendly, and makes my entire computer system glitchy.
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I have observed a few glitchy UI bugs but no performance bugs so far.
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I disagree. The multiplayer is glitchy and unoriginal.
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The multiplayer is still a bit glitchy and desperately needs patching, but the campaign was a lot of fun for me.
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She's wonderfully articulated and her eye mechanism is really fun... if a little glitchy.
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Synonyms
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7.7
Not working correctly, often for devices, apps, or websites
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3.9
Having many small errors or problems in a program
Antonyms
How Reliable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word glitchy comes from the shorter word glitch, a tech slang term that likely comes from a Yiddish word meaning 'slip'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a 'slip' in a machine or video, so something glitchy has small, sudden errors or strange sounds or images.