Sebastian Junger

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

American Author

Susan Hill

If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

English Author

David Leitch

There are a lot of big action movies that we've worked on where the attitude has been, 'Let's just get through this scene.' Then you get those jumpy, what-were-they-thinking action sequences.

American Actor

Bruce Eric Kaplan

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

American Cartoonist

Matthew Pearl

Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.

American Novelist

Billie Eilish

I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.

American Singer

Andrew Santino

I'm a little bit too jumpy, when sometimes I should just sit back and let it unfold as it's supposed to and think about it before I jump in.

American Comedian

Neeti Mohan

I quite often listen to Internet radio; especially the RnB section if I am jumpy.

Indian Musician

Maisie Williams

If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

English Actress

Chris Kyle

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

American Soldier

Use 'jumpy' to describe someone's temporary feeling, not their overall personality.

Emotional State

'Jumpy' can imply someone suspects danger or is on high alert for it.

Subtle Warning

Although referring to agitation, 'jumpy' is not used for excitement or happiness.

Not for Joy

Use 'jumpy' when technical problems cause inconsistent movements or flow.

Technical Issues

'Jumpy' can suggest poor quality or condition of mechanical objects or technology.

Quality Indicator

Describe the physical experience, like a bumpy car ride, with 'jumpy' when it's notably uncomfortable.

Physical Sensation

 It's a very important period -- it's roughly half the period when we've been fully modern humans on the planet. We've had the same, roughly, abilities that developed civilizations as we know it. This is the environmental conditions on the planet. Here, used as a proxy, temperature variability. It was a jumpy ride. 80,000 years back in a crisis,

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 that maybe she had a kill in there the last couple days and she's now come out and so she looks as though she's hitting kind of southwards so I want to just check treehouse Dam and twin dams in case she's gone for water I drove past some impalas just before I spotted the tracks and they looked seriously jumpy they were not in

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 There are things that I just had to work out on the fly, through one iteration after the next. And you figure out a problem, or, you come across a problem you just have to figure out a solution. The cricket's too jumpy, the worm's freaking out, the water doesn't look right and

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 can tell that being on his own is quite risky because he gotta lower his head very low to the ground to feed and each time he does that he's at risk of being snuck up upon so hence the fact that he's constantly raising his head and alerts awareness very jumpy in the wind

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 disappears they are very jumpy when they won't go very far yeah they will go much further away from the den when she's in when she's available she's around otherwise they're quite skittish because they know or should I say through evolution of those cubs that have

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 the country they considered national treasures there fortunately I was offered to buy this horse organ yoke and he was this big strong fighter or gelding what I didn't realize at the time however was that he was also such a jumpy paranoid animal that he would

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 they say you don't say um we take an off say I'm going on vacation government of Iraq if they know I'm gonna leave and not come back they put me in jail my family they told me Estefan mr. Liang we want you to be jumpy on it want you to

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 not too strong but definitely strong enough to affect some of the animals particularly your prey species you'll find your Impala and and vole beasts zebra and things like that will be quite jumpy too in this weather

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 When you release it -- snap! It brings back all the energy. So I'm sure everybody would like to have that material. But here's the to catch cat fleas is difficult. Why? Because they are jumpy.

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 makes me jumpy I'm liking a little kid in my head I'm singing a little good song alright look at that there's my eyes hey life below zero above zero you never know who you're gonna meet you

Jumpy

Tense, nervous, or agitated, often because of fear or anxiety.

Often appears as...

Not smooth or steady; full of jerks or uneven movements.

Often appears as...

Emotional State

Subtle Warning

Not for Joy

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