jolting

comparative more jolting · superlative most jolting

1. Causing or characterized by sudden abrupt movements.

   One day while working at an ad agency in Greenville, South Carolina, Jay got this joltin' notion to do a novelty number around the then-hot CB (citizen's band radio) craze.

   1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 327

2. Synonym of shocking.

   Synonyms: shocking

plural joltings

1. gerundgerund of jolt: an action or movement that jolts.

   [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.

   1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of jolt