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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (edgier; -est) Date: 1775 1. having an edge ; sharp 2. a. being on edge ; tense, irritable b. characterized by tension <edgy negotiations> 3. having a bold, provocative, or unconventional quality <an edgy film> • edgily adverb • edginess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (edgier, edgiest) 1 irritable; nervously anxious. 2 disjointed (edgy rhythms). Derivatives: edgily adv. edginess n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Edgy Edg"y, a. [From Edge.] 1. Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper. 2. (Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. ``An edgy style of sculpture.'' --Hazlitt.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(edgier, edgiest) If someone is edgy, they are nervous and anxious, and seem likely to lose control of themselves. (INFORMAL) She was nervous and edgy, still chain-smoking. = uptight, tense ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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