jotting

Speech parts

1. jotting - Noun

2. jotting - Verb

Derived from jot

Meaning

of Jot

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

jot whiting record letter bill notation carat ampersand note entry chart minute item summary apostrophe
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Antonyms

avoid remove delete erase strike out obviate
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Hypernyms

note

Examples

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. Stephen Leacock

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house. Don Henley

Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me. Haruki Murakami

One of my mottoes as a writer is a little jotting from Kafka's journals: ‘Never again psychology!' But alas, humankind is obsessed with its psychological workings, and since the novel can only treat of humankind... You see my predicament. John Banville

To while away the idle hours, seated the livelong day before the inkslab, by jotting down without order or purpose whatever trifling thoughts pass through my mind, truely this is a queer and crazy thing to do! Yoshida Kenkō

I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission. Megan McCafferty

Close letter words and terms

jotted down jotter jottering Jotto jotty jotun