jostle

1. 1.

   the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)

   Synonymsjostling

   Broadershove

   Narrowerelbowing

Other forms of jostle

plural

jostles·

past tense

jostled·

present participle

jostling·

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 jostle

What does jostle mean?

jostle means "make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jostle?

jostle has 2 syllables: jos-tle. The stress falls on "jos". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɑsəl/.

What is another word for jostle?

Close synonyms include shove, jostling. 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 jostle a common word?

jostle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.