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. Top Obama:

   There is this knee jerk sense on the part of some of the foreign policy establishment that shooting first and thinking about it second projects strength. I disagree with that.

2. George Steinbrenner:

   I ’m aggravated, frustrated, angry, but again, that’s not going to push me into a knee-jerk reaction to get rid of somebody that I believe the players respect, want to play for, want to win for and overall has done a good job keeping that clubhouse together through this difficult three months.

3. Mark Luschini:

   The referendum doesn't really change anything with the negotiations, i think after the initial knee jerk reaction, the majority opinion is that there is still a possibility of some sort of a deal that keeps Greece in the euro zone.

4. James Clark:

   In every urban core you have the same mentality that is on display in St Louis right now. In St Louis, we have a human capital crisis where you have men, women, boys and girls who have not been cultivated to care, so, violence becomes a knee-jerk reaction.

5. Jo Ann Hardesty:

   The police have arolebut their role is simply to solve crime -- their role is not to prevent crime, their role is not to intervene in other community activities, a response to gun violence should not be a knee-jerk reaction.