Usually means: Moving with sudden, sharp motions.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. jerkily: Merriam-Webster
  2. jerkily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jerkily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jerkily: Vocabulary.com
  5. jerkily: Wordnik
  6. jerkily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. jerkily: Wiktionary
  8. jerkily: Dictionary.com
  9. jerkily: Rhymezone
  10. jerkily: FreeDictionary.org
  11. jerkily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. jerkily: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jerkily: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jerkily)

▸ adverb:  In a jerky manner.

Similar:
spasmodically, jerkishly, jerkingly, knee-jerkishly, joltily, jaggedly, jitterily, jankily, jarringly, jabberingly, more...

Opposite:
smoothly, fluidly, gracefully

Phrases:
walk jerkily, jerkily move, more...

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Similar:
spasmodically, jerkishly, jerkingly, knee-jerkishly, joltily, jaggedly, jitterily, jankily, jarringly, jabberingly, more...

Opposite:
smoothly, fluidly, gracefully

Phrases:
walk jerkily, jerkily move, more...



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