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edgy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective edgy has 1 sense
- edgy(s = adj.all) high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight - being in a tense state; Array Derived forms noun edge4, noun edginess1
CIDE DICTIONARY
edgy, a. [From Edge.].
- Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper. [1913 Webster]
- Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
edgy, adj. (edgier, edgiest)
1 irritable; nervously anxious.
2 disjointed (edgy rhythms).
1 irritable; nervously anxious.
2 disjointed (edgy rhythms).
Derivative
edgily adv. edginess n.
THESAURUS
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
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