| 单词 | edgy |
| 释义 | edgy (once / 7529 pages) adj 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. A tendency to get edgy — irritable and jittery — might be a result of too much coffee, or just a personality trait. It's not a very helpful habit in most cases, leading you to snap at other people or just feel tense. An informal way to use edgy is to mean "experimental or daring." In the 18th century, something edgy literally had sharp edges, but by the early 1800s it came to mean "tense and irritable." WORD FAMILYedgy: edgier, edgiest, edgily, edginess+/edge: edged, edgeless, edger, edges, edging, edgy/edger: edgers/edging: edgings USAGE EXAMPLESClemson seems a bit louder, a bit edgier, with a taste for revenge. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) It grew into an e-commerce destination for trendy, edgy fashions for women, with the company eventually adding two brick-and-mortar stores in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) The wines are certified biodynamic, and an earth-friendly viticulture is reflected in the edgy energy the wine conveys on the palate. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) adj being in a tense state Syn high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight tense in or of a state of physical or nervous tension |
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