1.
[syn: choppy, jerky]
2. rough with small waves;
- Example: "choppy seas"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Choppy \Chop"py\, a. [Cf. Chappy.]
1. Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. [Cf. Chop a change.] Rough, with short, tumultuous
waves; as, a choppy sea.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
choppy
adj 1: marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn:
choppy, jerky]
2: rough with small waves; "choppy seas"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "choppy":
bouncy, broken, broken off, bumpy, capricious, careening, catchy,
changeable, changing, chopped-off, coarse, coarse-grained,
corrugated, cross-grained, decousu, desultory, deviating,
deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected, discontinued,
discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate,
divergent, diversified, diversiform, eccentric, episodic, erose,
erratic, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, grainy, granulated,
guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, homespun,
horripilant, immethodical, impulsive, incoherent, inconsistent,
inconstant, inequal, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted,
irregular, jagged, jarring, jerky, jogglety, joggling, joggly,
jolting, jolty, linsey-woolsey, lurching, mercurial, motley,
mutable, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential,
nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, parenthetic, patchy, pimply,
pitted, pluralistic, pocky, potholed, ragged, rambling, rank,
ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled,
rutted, rutty, scrappy, shagged, shaggy, snatchy, spasmatic,
spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering,
suspended, textured, uncertain, unconnected, unequable, unequal,
uneven, unjoined, unkempt, unlevel, unmethodical, unmetrical,
unorthodox, unpolished, unrefined, unregular, unrhythmical,
unsettled, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive,
unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various,
varying, veering, wandering, wavering, wimpled, wobbling, wobbly