Edgy \Edg"y\, a. [From Edge.]
1. Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or
the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of
sculpture." --Hazlitt.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
edgy
adj : being in a tense state [syn: high-strung, highly strung,
in suspense(p), jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung,
restive, uptight]
[also: edgiest, edgier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "edgy":
agitable, all nerves, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, apprehensive,
breathless, chafing, combustible, eager, emotional,
emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive,
fearful, fretful, fretting, frightened, hasty, high-mettled,
high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hopped-up, impatient,
impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, inflammable,
irascible, irritable, mettlesome, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy,
on edge, overstrung, panicky, perturbable, prickly, restive,
restless, sensitive, skittery, skittish, squirming, squirmy,
startlish, touchy, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, uptight, volatile,
volcanic
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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