jiffy

The word “jiffy” has 2 syllables: jif-fy

It's pronounced as /ˈdʒɪfi/


What is synonym and antonym for jiffy?

In the thesaurus, “jiffy” has 22 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for jiffy along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for jiffy

  • New York minute
  • beat
  • breath
  • crack
  • eyeblink
  • flash
  • heartbeat
  • instant
  • jiff
  • microsecond
  • minute
  • moment
  • nanosecond
  • second
  • shake
  • snatch
  • split second
  • spurt
  • trice
  • twinkle
  • twinkling
  • wink

Antonyms for jiffy

  • aeon
  • age
  • eon
  • eternity
  • forever
  • infinity
  • lifetime

Meanings of jiffy

  • noun
    1. A very short, unspecified length of time.
    2. A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
    3. The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
    4. The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
    5. Short for jiffy bag, a padded envelope.

Example Sentences

  • I'll be back in a jiffy, just need to grab my coat.
  • Can you fix that problem in a jiffy? It shouldn't take long.
  • She whipped up a delicious meal in a jiffy.
  • In just a jiffy, the magician made the rabbit disappear.
  • With his skills, he solved the puzzle in a jiffy.

On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to jiffy, such as: New York minute, aeon, age, beat, breath, crack, eon.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

nanosecond

  • New York minute
  • bat of an eye
  • beat
  • blink of an eye
  • eyeblink
  • flash
  • fraction of a second
  • half a second
  • heartbeat
  • instant
  • jiff
  • jiffy
  • microsecond
  • millisecond
  • minute
  • moment
  • nothing flat
  • second
  • shake
  • snatch
  • split second
  • spurt
  • trice
  • twinkle
  • twinkling
  • wink

jiff

  • New York minute
  • beat
  • breathing
  • burst
  • crack
  • eyeblink
  • flash
  • heartbeat
  • instant
  • jiffy
  • microsecond
  • minute
  • moment
  • nanosecond
  • outburst
  • second
  • shake
  • show
  • snatch
  • split second
  • spurt
  • trice
  • twinkle
  • twinkling
  • wink

jiffs

  • New York minutes
  • beats
  • breathing
  • burst
  • crack
  • eyeblinks
  • flashes
  • heartbeats
  • instant
  • instants
  • jiffies
  • jiffy
  • microseconds
  • minute
  • minutes
  • moment
  • moments
  • nanoseconds
  • outburst
  • second
  • seconds
  • shake
  • shakes
  • show
  • snatches
  • split seconds
  • spurts
  • trice
  • trices
  • twinkle
  • twinkles
  • twinkling
  • twinklings
  • wink
  • winks

occasion

  • accident
  • achievement
  • advance
  • adventure
  • affair
  • alpha and omega
  • antecedent
  • basis
  • be-all and end-all
  • beget
  • begin
  • bit
  • break
  • breed
  • bring
  • bring about
  • bring forth
  • bring on
  • call
  • catalyze
  • causality
  • causation
  • cause
  • celebration
  • chance
  • circumstance
  • co-occurrence
  • coincidence
  • consideration
  • convenience
  • create
  • crisis
  • cultivate
  • decide
  • deed
  • demand
  • determinant
  • determine
  • develop
  • do
  • draw on
  • effect
  • effectuate
  • elicit
  • emergency
  • enact
  • encourage
  • engender
  • episode
  • establish
  • event
  • evoke
  • excuse
  • experience
  • exploit
  • factor
  • father
  • feat
  • flash
  • fluke
  • forward
  • foster
  • found
  • foundation
  • freak
  • further
  • generate
  • give rise to
  • go
  • goings-on
  • ground
  • grounds
  • hap
  • happenchance
  • happening
  • happenstance
  • hatch
  • impetus
  • inaugurate
  • incentive
  • incident
  • induce
  • inducement
  • influence
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • inspiration
  • inspire
  • instant
  • instigation
  • institute
  • introduce
  • invoke
  • jiffy
  • juncture
  • justification
  • landmark
  • launch
  • lead to
  • make
  • milepost
  • milestone
  • minute
  • moment
  • mother
  • motivation
  • motive
  • move
  • muster
  • necessity
  • need
  • news
  • nourish
  • nurture
  • obligation
  • occurrence
  • opening
  • opportunity
  • origin
  • originate
  • page
  • pass
  • persuade
  • phenomenon
  • pioneer
  • play
  • possibility
  • produce
  • promote
  • prompt
  • prompting
  • provocation
  • provoke
  • purpose
  • reason
  • render
  • right
  • room
  • root
  • scene
  • season
  • second
  • set
  • set up
  • shake
  • shot
  • show
  • source
  • space
  • spawn
  • spell
  • split second
  • spring
  • start
  • stimulus
  • stretch
  • thing
  • tidings
  • time
  • trice
  • turn out
  • turning point
  • twinkle
  • use
  • warrant
  • way
  • while
  • wink
  • work
  • work up
  • yield

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