jolty

Questions about jolty

What does jolty mean?

jolty means "causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements".

How many syllables are in jolty?

jolty has 2 syllables and divides as jol-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jolty?

Close synonyms include rough, rocky, bumpy, jolting, jumpy. 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 jolty a common word?

jolty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.