jump

The word “jump” has 1 syllable: jump

It's pronounced as /dʒʌmp/

What is synonym and antonym for jump?

In the thesaurus, “jump” has 250 synonyms and 67 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for jump along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for jump

abandon
accelerate
advance
advantage
allowance
arrow
ascend
ascendancy
ascendency
ascent
attack
augmentation
bail out
bar
barge
barrel
barricade
barrier
beat it
beeline
beetle
belt
benefit
better
blast
blaze
blench
blessing
blow
bob
bolt
bomb
boon
boost
bounce
bound
bowl
break
breeze
buck
bulge
bundle
bustle
buzz
cancel
cannonball
canter
caper
capriole
careen
career
carom
catbird seat
catch up
cavort
chase
clear
clear out
coign of vantage
command
course
cover
cringe
cross out
curvet
dance
dart
dash
digress
dive
dominance
drive
drop
edge
escalate
evade
fall
fast-forward
felicity
fence
flinch
flit
fly
foothold
frolic
gain
gallop
gambade
gambado
gambol
get a move on
godsend
handicap
hare
hasten
head start
hie
high ground
highball
hike
hop
hopping
hump
hurdle
hurl
hurry
hurtle
hustle
impediment
increment
inflation
inside track
jack up
jerk
jet
jiggle
jog
jolt
jounce
lead
leap
leapfrog
leapfrogging
leaping
leave
leg up
lollop
lop
lope
lunge
lurch
make tracks
manna
margin
mastery
miss
motor
mount
nip
nosedive
nullify
odds
opportunity
outpace
outrun
outstrip
overshoot
overtake
parachute
pass over
pelt
pitch
plummet
plunge
pop
pounce
precedence
predominance
preference
prerogative
privilege
pull
put up
quail
quicken
quiver
race
rail
raise
ram
rattle
react
rebound
recoil
respond
ricochet
rip
rise
rocket
romp
run
rush
rustle
saltate
saltation
scamper
scoot
scud
scuffle
scurry
scuttle
seniority
shake
shake a leg
shock
shoot
shrink
skip
skipping
sky
skyrocket
somersault
speed
spook
spring
sprint
spurt
squinch
stampede
start
startle
stead
step
step on it
step out
streak
stretch
superiority
supremacy
surge
swerve
switch
take
tear
top
transcendence
transcendency
travel
trip
trot
twitch
up
upper hand
upspring
upsurge
upturn
vantage
vault
waver
whip hand
whirl
whisk
whiz
whizz
wince
windfall
wobble
wrench
zip
zoom

Antonyms for jump

address
amble
bar
catch
check
clog
crawl
creep
crimp
dally
dawdle
decelerate
decline
decrease
detriment
dillydally
disability
disadvantage
disparity
drag
drawback
drop
embarrassment
face
failing
handicap
hindrance
hitch
hurdle
imbalance
impairment
impediment
inequality
interference
lag
lessen
let
liability
linger
loiter
lose
lower
lumber
lurch
manacle
minus
obstacle
obstruction
penalty
plod
poke
recede
retreat
rub
saunter
setback
shackle
shortcoming
shuffle
stop
stranglehold
strike
stroll
tarry
trammel
unevenness
uphold

Meanings of jump

noun
1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
3. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
4. An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
6. An object which causes one to jump, a ramp.
7. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
8. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
9. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
10. A jumping move in a board game.
11. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
12. An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
13. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
14. A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
15. An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
16. A change of the path of execution to a different location.
17. Short for jump-start.
18. An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
19. A single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the partners has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night.
20. Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.
21. A kind of loose jacket for men.
verb
1. To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
2. To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
3. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
4. To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
5. To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
6. To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
7. To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
8. To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
9. To attack suddenly and violently.
10. To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
11. To cause to jump.
12. To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
13. To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
14. To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
15. To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
16. (smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
17. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
18. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
19. To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
20. To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
21. To flee; to make one's escape.
adjective
1. Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
adverb
1. Exactly; precisely.

Example Sentences

She can jump higher than anyone else in the class.
The children started to jump on the trampoline.
I heard a loud noise and then saw the cat jump off the table.
He decided to jump into the pool to cool off.
She was excited to jump at the chance to go on the trip.

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