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Edgy vs Distant - What's the difference?

edgy | distant |

As adjectives the difference between edgy and distant

is that edgy is nervous, apprehensive while distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally).

edgy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • nervous, apprehensive
  • (entertainment/advertising jargon): creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge
  • (entertainment/advertising jargon) : on the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; dodgy
  • (dated) irritable
  • an edgy temper
  • (art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
  • * Hazlitt
  • An edgy style of sculpture.
  • (of a knife or blade) sharp.
  • distant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.