edgy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: edg=y

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).

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