jumps

The word “jumps” has 1 syllable: jumps

It's pronounced as /dʒʌmps/

What is synonym and antonym for jumps?

In the thesaurus, “jumps” has 287 synonyms and 86 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for jumps

accelerates
access
advantages
agitation
all-overs
allowances
anger
angst
animation
ants in pants
antsiness
anxiety
anxiousness
apprehension
arrows
ascendancies
ascendencies
attack
attacks
bad feeling
barrels
beats it
beelines
beetles
belts
benefits
betters
blasts
blazes
blenches
blessings
blow
blows
bolts
bombs
boons
botheration
bounces
bounds
bout
bowls
breaks
breezes
brunt
bucks
bulges
bundles
burst
bustles
butterflies
buzzes
cannonballs
capers
caprice
caprioles
care
careens
careers
catbird seats
catches up
cavorts
chases
coigns of vantage
cold sweat
commands
concern
conniption
convulsion
courses
creeps
cringes
darts
dashes
delirium
discomfiture
discomfort
disquiet
disquietude
distress
dither
dithers
dives
dominances
doubt
downer
drag
dread
drives
drops
edges
edginess
epileptic attack
excitability
fast-forwards
felicities
feverishness
fidget
fidgets
flap
flies
flinches
flits
fluster
footholds
foreboding
frenzy
fretfulness
frolics
fuss
gallops
gambadoes
gambados
gambols
gets a move on
godsends
goose bumps
hares
hastens
head starts
heebie-jeebies
hies
high grounds
highballs
hops
hostility
humor
humps
hurdles
hurls
hurries
hurtles
hustles
impatience
inside tracks
jerks
jets
jitters
jogs
jolts
jump
leads
leapfrogs
leaps
legs up
lopes
makes tracks
mannas
margins
masteries
misery
misgiving
mistrust
mood
moodiness
motors
nail-biting
needles
nerves
nervousness
neurasthenia
neuroticism
nips
odds
opportunities
outbreak
outburst
outpaces
outruns
outstrips
overtakes
panic
paroxysm
pelts
perturbation
pins and needles
pitches
plunges
pounces
precedences
predominances
preferences
prerogatives
pressure
privileges
pulls
quails
quickens
quivers
races
rage
rams
reacts
recoils
responds
restlessness
rips
rockets
romps
runs
rush
rushes
rustles
scampers
scoots
scuds
scuffles
scurries
scuttles
seniorities
sensitivity
shakes
shakes a leg
shiver
shivers
shoots
shrinks
skips
skyrockets
solicitude
spasm
spate
speeds
spell
spooks
springs
sprints
squinches
stage fright
stampedes
startles
starts
steads
steps
steps on it
steps out
stimulation
strain
streaks
stress
stroke
suffering
superiorities
supremacies
suspense
sweat
tantrum
tears
tenseness
tension
throe
timidity
tizzy
to-do
torrent
touchiness
transcendences
transcendencies
travels
tremble
trembles
tremulousness
trots
trouble
turbulence
turn
twitch
twitches
uncertainty
unease
uneasiness
upper hands
vantages
vaults
watchfulness
whim
whimsy
whip hands
whirls
whisks
whizzes
willies
winces
windfalls
worriment
worry
zips
zooms

Antonyms for jumps

advantage
ambles
assurance
bars
belief
benefit
blessing
calm
calmness
catches
certainty
checks
clogs
collectedness
composure
confidence
contentedness
contentment
crawls
creeps
crimps
dallies
dawdles
decelerates
detriments
dillydallies
disabilities
disadvantages
discouragement
disparities
drags
drawbacks
ease
embarrassments
failings
faith
handicaps
happiness
health
hindrances
hitches
hurdles
imbalances
impairments
impediments
inequalities
interferences
joy
lags
lets
liabilities
limpness
lingers
loiters
looseness
lumbers
lurches
manacles
minuses
nonchalance
obstacles
obstructions
peace
peacefulness
penalties
pleasure
plods
pokes
relaxation
rubs
saunters
security
setbacks
shackles
shortcomings
shuffles
slack
stops
strangleholds
strikes
strolls
sureness
tarries
trammels
tranquility
trust

Meanings of jumps

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. A kind of loose jacket for men.
19. A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
20. An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
21. 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.
22. Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.
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.

Example Sentences

He jumps over the hurdles with ease during the race.
The dog jumps onto the couch whenever someone opens the door.
She jumps up to grab the ball out of the air.
The cat startled me when it suddenly jumps from the shelf.
He always jumps to conclusions without fully understanding the situation.

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