Meaning of EDGY
| Pronunciation: | | 'ejee
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | [adj] being in a tense state |
| |
| | Websites: | | |
| |
| | Synonyms: | | highly strung, high-strung, in suspense(p), jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, tense, uptight |
| |
|
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \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.
|
| |
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | agitable, all nerves, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, apprehensive, breathless, chafing, combustible, eager, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, excited, explosive, fearful, fretful, fretting, frightened, hasty, highly emotional, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, 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 |
| |
|
|
|