Synonyms and Antonyms of jumpy
1
easily excited by nature
excitable, fiddle-footed, flighty, fluttery, high-strung, hyper, hyperactive, hyperexcitable, hyperkinetic, jittery, nervous, skittery, skittish, spasmodic, spooky
hot-blooded, mercurial, temperamental, unstable, volatile, volcanic
anxious, edgy, flibbertigibbety, nervy, tense, uptight
emotional, emotionalistic, hypersensitive, intense, sensitive, soulful
dramatic, histrionic, melodramatic
irascible, irritable, perturbable, prickly, testy, touchy
2
feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty
- flight attendants had to calm jumpy passengers after the plane hit unexpected turbulence
aflutter, antsy, anxious, atwitter, dithery, edgy, goosey, het up, hinky [slang], hung up, ill at ease, insecure, jittery, nervous, nervy, perturbed, queasy (also queazy), tense, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, upset, uptight, worried
aggrieved, bothered, concerned, disquieted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, freaked, freaked-out, shook-up
apprehensive, foreboding, hesitant, misgiving
fretful, fretting, stewing, vexed
qualmish, qualmy
flustered, twittered, undone, unnerved, unstrung
obsessed, preoccupied, restless
fidgety, flighty, fluttery, high-strung, hypertense, skittish, spooky
