1.
[syn: spasmodically, jerkily]
2. with jerking motions;
- Example: "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
jerkily
adv 1: with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked
violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn:
spasmodically, jerkily]
2: with jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the
window seat"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "jerkily":
at irregular intervals, at random, brokenly, by catches, by fits,
by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, desultorily, disconnectedly,
discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, fitfully,
flutteringly, haltingly, in snatches, in spots, inconstantly,
intermittently, irregularly, lurchingly, nonuniformly, off and on,
patchily, quakingly, quaveringly, quiveringly, roughly,
saltatorily, shakily, shudderingly, spasmodically, sporadically,
spottily, tremblingly, tremulously, uncertainly, unevenly,
unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadily,
unsystematically, variably, waveringly, whimsically, wobblingly