jar

1. 1.

   a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles

   Broadervessel

   Narroweramphorabeakercanopic jarcookie jarcrockcrusejampotMason jarvase

   Partslidmouth
2. 2.

   the quantity contained in a jar

   “he drank a jar of beer”

   Synonymsjarful

   Broadercontainerful
3. 3.

   a sudden jarring impact

   “the door closed with a jolt”

   “all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers”

   Synonymsjoltjounceshock

   Broaderblow

Other forms of jar

plural

jars·

past tense or participle

jarred

present participle

jarring

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jar

What does jar mean?

jar means "be incompatible; be or come into conflict". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jar?

jar has 1 syllable: jar. In IPA it is /ˈdʒɑɹ/.

What is another word for jar?

Close synonyms include clash, collide, jolt, shake up, bump around. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jar a common word?

jar is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with jar?

1 word rhymes with jar. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.