edgy

[edg·y]

If you're edgy, you're uptight, tense, or anxious. You might find yourself getting nervous and edgy right before you take a difficult test.

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Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

Adjective S.
being in a tense state


a.
Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

a.
Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.


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.

Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.

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Usage Examples

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

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