What's the difference between edgy and irritable?

Edgy


Definition:

  • (a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
  • (a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Garfield has a history of making interesting choices and a knack for using his edgy watchfulness to steal scenes from some of the best actors in the business.
  • (2) With the unprecedented riches offered by next season’s top tier television deal at stake, it proved a slightly strange, decidedly edgy, game.
  • (3) And his art is always edgy – a bit worrying, getting a bit under your skin.
  • (4) The softly-spoken but determined champion, born in Bow and raised in Limerick, brought quiet menace and the threat of a dramatic finish; Saunders, the challenger, all energy and edgy aggression, had come for a night of educated boxing.
  • (5) A taxi driver called a tipoff line after he recognised a group of difficult clients from that morning, unusually edgy about handling their large suitcases.
  • (6) The result was Doll By Doll, dominated by Leven, whom I described at the time as "a mixture of Van Morrison and a psychopath", but who could mix edgy, brooding rock songs, such as Butcher Boy, with stirring, lyrical Celtic soul, including the exquisite Main Travelled Roads.
  • (7) "It's more contrived in terms of 'good girl gone bad' or 'I'm so edgy – I'm twerking in this context.'
  • (8) Fodi’s liberal audience pay to hear career radicals speak about “dangerous” subjects during “edgy” debates, but turn a blind eye to the unethical practices that events such as the Fodi and the Biennale inevitably cover up.
  • (9) Barclays bankers were engulfed in a culture of "edginess" and had a "winning at all costs" attitude which raised tensions with regulators and damaged its reputation, according to a review into the ethics of the embattled bank.
  • (10) Or some edgy comic business relating to abortion, or menstruation?
  • (11) We got a little bit edgy in the second half, that’s probably more down to the situation we find ourselves in.
  • (12) Capaldi admitted that a little of Malcolm Tucker, his foul-mouthed political aide in satirical series The Thick of It, had crept into his Doctor, meaning he was a little more "edgy, volatile and dangerous".
  • (13) It surely helped her reputation as much as her life that she was brave, robust, loyal, edgy, and a survivor.
  • (14) When Scotland got their goal back it could have been a bit edgy, but we responded fantastically and it was very special for me to score two goals for England in Scotland at Celtic Park.” Gordon Strachan admitted his players had been “spooked” by England’s energetic opening as they slipped to only a second defeat in 11 games to douse some of the optimism generated by Friday’s victory over the Republic of Ireland .
  • (15) "The comics who are more surrealist, abstract, or edgy – that's never going to work on Live at the Apollo," says Perrin.
  • (16) The influence of the Forest Fringe – the festival's free, even more eccentric wing – could be discerned in the rise of edgy new venues such as Summerhall , the space curated by Battersea Arts Centre .
  • (17) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
  • (18) Their 'hipster' children who have only ever lived through the era of neo-con politics find these environments stultifying and conventional and long for something more edgy, urban and cool-'authentic' places where poor folk live, that make them feel daring and adventurous.
  • (19) Nor is there any dispute that this is dark and edgy TV.
  • (20) The old failings were becoming sorely evident and Tottenham fed off the edginess.

Irritable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being irriated.
  • (a.) Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
  • (a.) Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
  • (a.) Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
  • (2) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (3) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
  • (4) Inhibition of binding of [3H]TPA to the receptor preparation by tigliane and ingenane DTE correlates with irritant activity in vivo, while some daphnane and 1 alpha-alkyldaphnane DTE inhibit binding of [3H]TPA in a less pronounced manner but still are very irritant.
  • (5) Exposure to irritants was also more common among the asthmatics than the nonasthmatics with similar exposure to organic allergens (P = 0.004).
  • (6) The purpose of this study was to develop a new model for the induction of chronic irritant contact dermatitis, which would reflect well the conditions of daily practice.
  • (7) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
  • (8) These injections led to epidermal hyperplasia in areas overlying the irritant and the effect was most significant when the irritant was placed in the upper dermis.
  • (9) Two children required lidocaine therapy for cardiac irritability manifesting as multifocal PVCs and ventricular tachycardia.
  • (10) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (11) The dietary fibre intake of 25 patients with the irritable bowel syndrome was assessed by dietary recall over one week for the period before onset of symptoms, at diagnosis and after six months treatment with bran and a fibre-rich diet, and compared with controls matched for age and sex.
  • (12) A case of epidermoid tumor of the sacral area with S3 root irritation resulting in bladder dysfunction is presented and its possible relationship to spinal puncture is discussed.
  • (13) The present study did not identify any baseline parameters such as initial prostate volume, peak flow rates, or obstructive or irritative symptom scores that correlated with clinical outcome.
  • (14) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
  • (15) The airways can be affected by inflammation, can be targets of infection, and can respond to chemical irritants with bronchoconstrictive responses.
  • (16) Some pulp irritation can occur if deep restorations are not placed over a protective film.
  • (17) MIDAZOLAM IS SUPERIOR TO DIAZEPAM IN CERTAIN WAYS: it has a more rapid onset; produces greater anterograde amnesia, less postoperative drowsiness, less venous irritation and less likelihood of thrombophlebitis development.
  • (18) Primary invasive adenocarcinoma of the bladder was diagnosed in a fifty-two-year-old male with a two-month history of irritative voiding symptoms.
  • (19) We studied seventy patients, 23 males and 47 females with irritable bowel syndrome in adolescence aged 13-19 yrs, who visited the department of psychosomatic medicine in Takano Hospital during about six year period of April, 1986-July, 1992.
  • (20) The study suggested that 1) diabetes and "prediabetes" produce significant changes in levels of chondroitin 4, 6, and dermatan sulfates within alveolar bone, 2) in "prediabetic" animals, interdental bone loss occurs prior to the onset of clinical symptoms and in the absence of local irritating factors, the bone height appears to return to normal levels, and 3) there may be a correlation between alveolar bone height and relative levels of dermatan sulfate.