| Main Entry: | jerky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled |
Synonyms: |
bouncy, bumpy, convulsive, fitful, jarring, jolting, lurching, paroxysmal, rough, shaking, shaky, spasmodic, tremulous, twitching, twitchy, uncontrollable |
Antonyms: |
fluid, smooth |
| Main Entry: | abrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening suddenly and unexpectedly |
Synonyms: |
hasty, hurried, jerky, precipitate, precipitous, quick, rushing, sudden, surprising, unanticipated, unceremonious, unexpected, unforeseen |
Antonyms: |
at ease, deliberate, expansive, gradual, leisurely |
| Main Entry: | bumpy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough |
Synonyms: |
choppy, corrugated, jarring, jerky, knobby, lumpy, potholed, rugged, rutted, uneven |
| Main Entry: | comic/comical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing |
Synonyms: |
Mickey Mouse, absurd, batty, boffo, camp*, comical, crazy, dippy, diverting, dizzy, droll, entertaining, facetious, farcical, flaky*, fool, foolheaded, for grins, freaky, funny, gelastic, goofus, goofy, gump, horse's tail, humorous, ironic, jerky, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, light, loony, ludicrous, nutty, off the wall, priceless, ridiculous, risible, schtick, screwy, side-splitting, silly, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty |
Antonyms: |
sad, serious, sober, solemn, tragic, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | fatuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid |
Synonyms: |
absurd, asinine, birdbrained, boneheaded, brainless, dense, dull, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, inane, insensate, jerky, lamebrained, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, mindless, moronic, puerile, sappy, silly, simple, vacuous, witless |
Antonyms: |
aware, bright, intelligent, keen, sensible, smart |
| Main Entry: | fidgety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restlessly moving |
Synonyms: |
antsy*, apprehensive, high-strung, hyper, impatient, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervous wreck, nervy, on edge, on pins and needles, restive, restless, spooked, spooky*, twitchy, uneasy, unrestful, up the wall, wired |
Antonyms: |
quiet, relaxed, restful, resting, still, unmoving |
| Main Entry: | foolish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonsensical, idiotic |
Synonyms: |
absurd, asinine, brainless, cockamamy, crazy, daffy, daft, dippy, doltish, dotty, fantastic, fatuous, feebleminded, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, ill-advised, ill-considered, imbecilic, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insane, irrational, jerky, kooky, loony, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, moronic, nerdy, nutty, preposterous, ridiculous, senseless, short-sighted, silly, simple, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise, wacky*, weak, witless, zany* |
Antonyms: |
careful, cautious, circumspect, prudent, sensible, serious, thoughtful, unfoolish, wise |
| Main Entry: | irregular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random, variable |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, aimless, capricious, casual, changeable, designless, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, eccentric, erratic, faltering, fitful, fluctuating, fragmentary, haphazard, hit-or-miss, inconstant, indiscriminate, infrequent, intermittent, jerky, nonuniform, occasional, out of order, patchy, purposeless, recurrent, shaky, shifting, spasmodic, sporadic, uncertain, unconsidered, uneven, unmethodical, unpunctual, unreliable, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, up and down, weaving |
Antonyms: |
conventional, methodical, regular, systematic |
| Main Entry: | ridiculous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid, funny |
Synonyms: |
absurd, antic, bizarre, comic, comical, contemptible, daffy, derisory, droll, fantastic, farcical, foolheaded, foolish, gelastic, goofy*, grotesque, harebrained, hilarious, impossible, incredible, jerky, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, outrageous, preposterous, risible, sappy*, silly, slaphappy, unbelievable, wacky* |
Antonyms: |
believable, reasonable, sensible, serious |
| Main Entry: | spasmodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | twitching, erratic |
Synonyms: |
bits and pieces, changeable, choppy, convulsive, desultory, fitful, fits and starts, intermittent, irregular, jerky, on-again-off-again, periodic, shaky, spastic, sporadic, spotty, spurtive, uncertain |
Antonyms: |
resting, uninterrupted |