edgy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Edgy \Edg"y\, a. [From {Edge}.]
   1. Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or
      the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of
      sculpture." --Hazlitt.
      [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "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