Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

knee-jerkishly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: knee--jerk-ish-ly
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a knee-jerkish manner.

Informal

Example Sentences

"Measurement specialists have been touting the importance of validity and reliability for so many years that most educators, when asked about how to judge a test's quality, will almost knee-jerkishly respond that validity and reliability are at the top of the test-evaluation list."
"Spotting these new meanings takes a more sophisticated approach to language, and one that is more sensitized to shades of definition instead of just knee-jerkishly categorizing a new meaning as "wrong.""
"What I am looking for in these pages is a way to express what I believe the NAIL legacy looks like from the vantage point of the new generation of critically minded international law scholars—half junior academics, half graduate students, most lawyers by training, some with little background in practice or activism, typically multilingual, practically atheist, socially liberal, knee-jerkishly ironic[…]"

Etymology

From knee-jerkish + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: knee-jerkish

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more knee-jerkishly (comparative) most knee-jerkishly (superlative)

Questions

What does knee-jerkishly mean?: In a knee-jerkish manner.
Where does knee-jerkishly come from?: From knee-jerkish + -ly.

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