knee-jerk
knee-jerk · more knee-jerk · most knee-jerk
automatisch, vorhersehbar, reflexartig
Unthinking, not carefully considered, automatic, spontaneous, easily predictableUnthinking, not carefully considered, (nearly) automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable.
Meaning
1 sensesUnthinking, not carefully considered, (nearly) automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable.
He gave a knee-jerk response.
reflexartig, vorhersehbar, automatisch
Translations
3 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
reacting unthinkingly or spontaneously in an expected manner:
Origin
From knee + jerk, First attested c. 1876, and derived from a figurative sense of the patelFrom knee + jerk, First attested c. 1876, and derived from a figurative sense of the patellar reflex.
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Forms
more knee-jerk, most knee-jerk| Comparative | more knee-jerk Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most knee-jerk Lesson |
regular
Word family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.