edgiest

Adjective

edgy (comparative edgier, superlative edgiest)

1. Nervous, apprehensive.
2. Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
3. (figuratively) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
   • “A few college kids make edgy jokes in a group chat and conservatives are tripping over themselves to denounce and disavow and call for firings and resignations,” Matt Walsh, a right-wing commentator, posted on X.2025 October 15, David W. Chen, Megan Mineiro, quoting Matt Walsh, “Republicans Face Fallout From Racist and Homophobic Texts”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...
4. (dated) Irritable.
   • an edgy temper
5. Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
   • A sculptor's ideas must, I should guess, be somewhat rigid and inflexible, like the materials in which he works. Besides, Nollekens's style was comparatively hard and edgy.1821–1822, William Hazlitt, “(please specify the essay name)”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Warren; Henry Colburn and Co.
6. Sharp; having prominent edges.
   • Shasta tried to get out of the way and to make Bree go back. But […] a woman with a very edgy basket in her hands, who was just behind Shasta, pushed the basket hard against his shoulders, and said, "Now then! Who are you shoving!"1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

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