EDGY

• A little out there, as humor

• About to snap

• All nerves

• All wound up

• Antsy

• Anxious

• Apprehensive

• Apt to snap

• Atwitter

• Avant-garde

• Boldly provocative

• Boldly unconventional

• Bordering on poor tatse

• Boundary-pushing

• Complimentary adjective for a comedian

• Controversial

• Daring

• Daring, in a way

• Easily rankled

• Easily upset

• Envelope-pushing

• Excitable

• Experiencing jitters

• Exploring the bounds of propriety, as humor

• Feeling tense

• Fidgeting

• Hardly calm

• Hardly calm or cool

• Hardly cool

• Having butterflies

• Having the jitters, perhaps

• High-strung

• Hip

• Hip, like the guitar on U2 albums?

• How some feel after espresso

• How you might start to feel when the waves get a little too high

• Ill at ease

• Impatient

• Impatient and anxious

• In drug rehab, perhaps

• Innovative and daring

• Intense

• Irascible

• Irritable

• Jittery

• Jumpy

• Keyed up

• Like a bundle of nerves

• Like avant-garde art

• Like hip ads

• Like industrial rock

• Like many an independent film

• Like performance art, often

• Like Slate, we like to think

• Like some modern filmmaking

• Like some performance art

• Likely to offend some people

• Nervous

• Nervous and worried

• Nervously irritable

• New-fangled

• Not at all serene

• Not cool at all

• Not mainstream

• On pins and needles

• On tenterhooks

• Out there, in pop culture

• Pacing, perhaps

• Provocative

• Provocative and unconventional

• Provocatively stylish

• Pushing the envelope

• Restive

• Restless

• Sharply defined

• Showing strain

• Skittish

• Snappish

• Stressed out

• Tense

• Testy

• Trend-setting

• Trigger-happy

• Unconventional

• Unconventionally provocative

• Uncool?

• Unquiet

• Up-tight

• Wired

edgy adj infml She's been a bit edgy lately Она в последнее время немного нервничает He's just an edgy guy Он просто такой нервный What is she so edgy about? Чего она так дергается?