Synonyms for knee-jerk
knee-jerk

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1. knee-jerknoun

   Synonyms:
   patellar reflex, kneejerk reflex

2. knee-jerkadjective

   Automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable

   He gave a knee-jerk response.

   Synonyms:
   kneejerk reflex, patellar reflex

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1. List of paraphrases for "knee-jerk":

   instinctive, impulsive, visceral, reflex, ill-considered, reflexive, unthinking, predictable

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1. Rajesh Paharia Jain:

   The rise in wheat price was rather moderate, and Indian prices are still substantially lower than global prices, wheat prices in some parts of the country had jumped to the current level even last year, so the move to ban export is nothing but a knee-jerk reaction.

2. Cristian Maggio:

   The market was surprised by the result, so there was a strong knee-jerk reaction yesterday, but it has adjusted for the surprise now.

3. Filmmaker Leslee Udwin:

   Those early, hysterical, knee-jerk reactions in India were from people who had not seen the film. There was no copy of the film at that point.

4. Gerry Soedjatman:

   In Indonesia, the regulators don't seem to understand the bigger picture, a lot of the policies that came out this year after the crash have been knee-jerk reactions.

5. Alfredo Ortiz:

   We want the game back where it belongs, this was a knee-jerk, hypocritical and illegal reaction to misinformation about Georgia’s new voting law which includes voter ID.