Antonyms for edged
ɛdʒdedged

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1. edgedadjective

   having a specified kind of border or edge

   "a black-edged card"; "rough-edged leaves"; "dried sweat left salt-edged patches"

   Antonyms:
   unbordered, kind, dull

   Synonyms:
   cutting, stinging

2. cutting, edged, stingingadjective

   (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character

   "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"

   Antonyms:
   dull, unbordered, kind

   Synonyms:
   keen, piercing, stabbing, knifelike, raw, stinging, cutting, lancinate, lancinating, bleak

3. edgedadjective

   having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination

   "an edged knife"; "a two-edged sword"

   Antonyms:
   kind, unbordered, dull

   Synonyms:
   cutting, stinging

How to use edged in a sentence?

1. John Carey:

   The big story is the dollar, and it continues to strengthen. That is a double-edged kind of development in that it will lead to more investor interest in the United States, but on the other hand it hampers the ability of U.S. multinationals to compete overseas.

2. Henry Brougham:

   It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

3. Tim Clark:

   On the one hand you save on the operating costs, but your yield starts to fall because your corporate business is disappearing so it's a double-edged sword, on balance, the airline community is doing better as a result of the lower oil price.

4. Sanjay Gupta:

   The cold weather is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it makes it very difficult, it is below freezing right now… On the other hand, it may reduce the demands for water. Perhaps that is playing into this, there is not a lot of data on how long people could survive in these situations but we are seeing those rescues 200 hours out.

5. One AFRICOM official:

   The theory is that if China continues unmitigated expansion, both militarily and economically, and we don't compete to protect our influence, the consequence could be that we are edged out of those areas and we lose the ability to address what we perceive as counterterrorism national interests in Africa.

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