jerkingly
- adverb
- /ˈdʒɜrkɪŋli/
:
bruscamente
- She walked jerkingly after twisting her ankle on the uneven pavement.
Examples
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That is so refreshingly honest... and tear-jerkingly pathetic at the same time.
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The ambulance starts rolling again—at first jerkingly, then with increasing speed.
Fiction book (1991) -
The car started moving jerkingly as it struggled to climb the steep hill.
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The robot operated jerkingly, causing it to drop the fragile item.
Synonyms
2
8.1
With sudden jerking movements that you cannot control
1
5.2
With sudden, uneven movements that are not smooth
With sudden, unsteady movements that make you lose balance
In a quick sharp way that shows impatience
In a sudden, rough way that shocks or surprises
Your hands or body move because you feel afraid
In a nervous way with small quick movements
In a nervous, easily startled way with sudden jerks
In a way that shows discomfort or nervousness by moving restlessly
In a way that makes someone shiver from fear or disgust
Antonyms
How Jerky
Surface Forms
Morphology
jerkingly = jerking (transparent) = jerk + ing + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'jerking', so the meaning is predictable from the base.
Etymology
Jerkingly comes from the short word jerk, which means 'a sudden pull' or a quick, sharp move, with -ing and -ly added to make it describe the way something happens. So, jerkingly means 'in a sudden, sharp way', like a car that jumps or a puppet that moves with quick pulls.