Synonyms for jerky
ˈdʒɜr kijerky

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1. jerky, jerked meat, jerkadjective

   meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

   Synonyms:
   saccade, jerk, dork, jerking, jerked meat, jolt, tug

   Antonyms:
   smart, gradual, steady

2. arrhythmic, jerking, jerkyadjective

   lacking a steady rhythm

   "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

   Synonyms:
   choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, jerking, goosey, arrhythmical, arrhythmic, goosy, gooselike

   Antonyms:
   steady, gradual, smart

3. choppy, jerkyadjective

   marked by abrupt transitions

   "choppy prose"

   Synonyms:
   choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, jerking, goosey, arrhythmic, goosy, gooselike

   Antonyms:
   smart, gradual, steady

4. anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerkyadjective

   having or revealing stupidity

   "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

   Synonyms:
   jerking, choppy, foolish, anserine, dopy, dopey, goosy, goosey, arrhythmic, gooselike

   Antonyms:
   smart, steady, gradual

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1. jerkyadjective

   Synonyms:
   abrupt, unconnected

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1. List of paraphrases for "jerky":

   dried

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1. Joseph Madalon:

   He was totally broiled, his skin had fallen off his body. There were huge chunks of skin on the sauna floor. He literally looked like jerky.

2. Russ Versaggi of Tampa:

   It was a little herky-jerky, a little abrupt at times, but never felt threatened, never feel endangered here at all.

3. Joseph Madalon:

   His skin had fallen off his body. There were huge chunks of skin on the sauna floor. He literally looked like jerky.

4. Author Levitt:

   If you try to envision how life evolved from the first organic molecules, it had to have been a herky-jerky process, full of twisted pathways and failures, most of them must have gone nowhere. But evolution has a way of creating winners from countless experiments over long periods of time.

5. Robert Hamilton:

   Everything you do is very gentle, you don’t want to do jerky motions ever.