Edgy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Edgy \Edg"y\, a. [From {Edge}.]
     1. Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
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     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  edgy
       adj : being in a tense state [syn: {high-strung}, {highly strung},
              {in suspense(p)}, {jittery}, {jumpy}, {nervy}, {overstrung},
              {restive}, {uptight}]
       [also: {edgiest}, {edgier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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