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[syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
edgy
adj 1: being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung,
highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy,
overstrung, restive, uptight]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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