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All on edge synonyms

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adjective on edge

  • excited — awakened
  • overanxious — excessively anxious.
  • wrecker — a person or thing that wrecks.
  • expectant — Having or showing an excited feeling that something is about to happen, especially something pleasant and interesting.
  • jittery — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
  • edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.

adverb on edge

  • anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
  • impatient — not patient; not accepting delay, opposition, pain, etc., with calm or patience.
  • wired — made of wire; consisting of or constructed with wires.
  • jumpily — Nervously, or restlessly.
  • jumpy — subject to sudden, involuntary starts, especially from nervousness, fear, excitement, etc.

adj on edge

  • ill at ease — of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
  • nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
  • in state — to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
  • in a state — distraught
  • aflame — If something is on fire, you can say it is aflame.
  • hyper — overexcited; overstimulated; keyed up.
  • fidgety — restless; impatient; uneasy.
  • worried — having or characterized by worry; concerned; anxious: Their worried parents called the police.
  • all shook up — shaken, upset
  • bundle of nerves — a very nervous person
  • anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
  • changeful — often changing; inconstant; variable
  • fluttery — fluttering; apt to flutter.
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