JOLTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jolting mean? 

• JOLTING (adjective)
  The adjective JOLTING has 1 sense:

1. causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

  Familiarity information: JOLTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOLTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

Synonyms:

bumpy; jolting; jolty; jumpy; rocky; rough

Context example:

a rough ride

 Context examples 

At each end of the yard there did indeed hang the dark figure of a man, jolting and lurching with hideous jerkings of its limbs at every plunge and swoop of the galley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were stiff with their long and jolting drive from Whitcross, and chilled with the frosty night air; but their pleasant countenances expanded to the cheerful firelight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)