Crossword clues for edgy
edgy
- Somewhat anxious
- Risqué, say
- Not mainstream, in a way
- Not at all calm
- Nervous and irritable
- Innovative and daring
- Feeling anxious
- Easily rankled
- Boldly unconventional
- All hyped up
- About to snap
- A little anxious
- Provocatively stylish
- Overly caffeinated
- Likely to snap
- Like a bundle of nerves
- In a tense state
- Having the jitters, perhaps
- Having butterflies
- Hardly calm or cool
- Daringly original
- Daringly innovative
- Boldly innovative
- Artistically provocative
- All tensed up
- Trés avant-garde
- Touchy and sensitive
- Tense or irritable
- Tending to push the envelope too far
- Sort of avant garde
- Risqué, maybe
- Quick to snap, say
- Pushing the bounds of taste
- Pushing the bounds of propriety
- Pushing boundaries
- Provocatively unconventional
- Provocatively original
- Provocatively innovative
- Provocatively chic
- Provocative, as humor
- Out there, humorwise
- Offbeat and innovative
- Nervous and worried
- Neither cool nor collected
- Neither calm nor collected
- Likely to offend some people
- Like the comedy of Andy Kaufman
- Like tense image
- Like some performance art
- Like Richard Pryor's humor
- Like performance art, often
- Like outsider art
- Like much prestige television
- Like many HBO shows
- Like many an independent film
- Like indie films, often
- Like indie crosswords (we hope)
- Like humor that pushes boundaries
- Like fringe festival offerings
- Like envelope-pushing comedy
- Like comedy that pushes the envelope
- Like challenging art
- Like bad boy image
- Like art that pushes boundaries
- Experimental and avant-garde
- Complimentary adjective for a comedian
- Breaking new ground, artistically speaking
- Boundary-pushing, like some modern art
- Bordering on offensive, as humor
- Boldly original
- Artistically unconventional
- A long way from composed
- Nervously irritable
- Irascible
- On pins and needles
- Snappish
- Irritable and touchy
- Wired on caffeine, perhaps
- Tense and irritable
- Stressed out
- Like hip ads
- Avant-garde
- Like some modern filmmaking
- Jittery
- Uptight
- Fidgeting
- Pushing the envelope
- On tenterhooks
- All nerves
- Unconventionally provocative
- Daring, in a way
- Envelope-pushing
- Jumpy
- Apprehensive
- Apt to snap
- Exploring the bounds of propriety, as humor
- A little "out there," as humor
- Pushing the boundaries of propriety
- RisquГ©, say
- Eliciting nervous laughter, say
- RisquГ©, maybe
- Like fringe festival fare
- Pushing conventional limits
- Impatient and anxious
- Restive
- High-strung
- Raw-nerved
- Anxiously impatient
- Skittish
- Sort of bordering on tense
- Somewhat underprepared, gymnast nervous
- Seedy guy regularly getting nervous
- Nervous, irritable
- Nervous journalist, guy that's lost heart
- Nervous journalist has good year after
- Nervous and at the forefront of fashion
- Avant-garde piece from talented gypsy
- Highly strung
- Tense: description of border area?
- Tense, nervous
- Tense BBC head entered in the out-of-date returns
- Keyed up
- Unable to sit still
- Wound up
- Get well
- All wound up
- All keyed up
- Out there, in pop culture
- Not at all cool
- Walking on eggshells
- Feeling tense
- Experiencing jitters
- Feeling nervous
- A bundle of nerves
- Very nervous
- Showing strain
- Pacing, perhaps
- Ill at ease
- Boldly provocative
- Sharply defined
- Liable to snap
- Like avant-garde art
- Touchy or sensitive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Edgy \Edg"y\, a. [From Edge.]
Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
(Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. ``An edgy style of sculpture.''
--Hazlitt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"having sharp edges," 1755, from edge (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "tense and irritable" is attested by 1837, perhaps from notion of being on the edge, at the point of doing something irrational (a figurative use attested from c.1600). Related: Edgily; edginess.
Wiktionary
a. 1 nervous, apprehensive 2 ''(entertainment/advertising jargon):'' creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge 3 ''(entertainment/advertising jargon)'': on the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; dodgy 4 (context dated English) irritable 5 (context art English) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. 6 (of a knife or blade) sharp.
WordNet
adj. being in a tense state [syn: high-strung, highly strung, in suspense(p), jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight]
Usage examples of "edgy".
Cam hesitated, searching for a descriptor, but the ones that came to mind--dark, edgy, unsettling--were not helpful.
That evening at anchor aboard the Busted Flush the three Floatation associates were edgy.
On the other hand, Grig thought, taking a deep breath, a talk with Uncle had a way of making the whole universe seem edgy, if not outright dangerous.
They were wary and alert, and Triskal, still recovering from his recent encounter with Rafar, felt especially edgy when he considered where they were leading Hank.
Out of the onetime slammer comes a promo campaign headed by Peter Russell, the edgiest sexploitation director ever.
Normal drill would be to take a sideman along, and although Tregare could find nothing remotely suspicious about the situation, he felt edgy and could have used the confidence of some backup.
You know how I hated Spicer going away without me: you know how I miss him, how lonely and edgy I get.
It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic.
Luta stood firm on his demands, and so the operation began, with Luta wide awake on the table and the walls lined with edgy Benji warriors.
Lyman carried the pitch package, color-matched, polyethnic, edgy and cool, with great copy.
Her hair continued to halo, her body carried the edgy tension of a viper waiting to strike and her face remained a mask of rage unlessened by taking Liuthan.
Unless edgy nerves and a rasping voice were part of Akron, as they might be.
Leaden daylight, passing through the panes, speckled the room with the watery-gray shadows of the hundreds of beads that tracked down the glass, and Sam was so edgy that he could almost feel those small ameboid phantoms crawling over him.
So once again, she was back at Beaux Reves, edgy, dissatisfied, and secretly disgusted with herself.
Mirtai was not in her customary place at the door, and that made Berit even more edgy.