edged

The word “edged” has 1 syllable: edged

It's pronounced as /ɛdʒd/


What is synonym and antonym for edged?

In the thesaurus, “edged” has 159 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for edged along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for edged

  • acicular
  • aciculate
  • aciculated
  • acid
  • acuate
  • acuminate
  • acuminous
  • acute
  • apical
  • arrowlike
  • banded
  • barbed
  • belted
  • biting
  • bordered
  • boundaried
  • bounded
  • briery
  • carrying
  • caustic
  • checked
  • circled
  • circumscribed
  • clawlike
  • clear-cut
  • compassed
  • configurated
  • confined
  • contiguous
  • controlled
  • cornered
  • crisp
  • curbed
  • cuspate
  • cuspated
  • cuspidate
  • cuspidated
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • defined
  • definite
  • delimited
  • delineated
  • demarcated
  • determinate
  • edgy
  • encircled
  • enclosed
  • encompassed
  • entering
  • enveloped
  • environed
  • extreme
  • fenced
  • filed
  • fine
  • finite
  • flanked
  • forcing
  • framed
  • fringed
  • girdled
  • girthed
  • gnawing
  • going through
  • ground
  • ground fine
  • hedged
  • hemmed
  • hog-tied
  • honed
  • horned
  • incisive
  • inclosed
  • infiltrating
  • ingoing
  • intense
  • intrusive
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • keen
  • keen-edged
  • knife-edged
  • knifelike
  • lacerating
  • lancinating
  • limitary
  • limited
  • looped
  • margined
  • marked
  • mucronate
  • needle-pointed
  • needlelike
  • observant
  • outlined
  • passing through
  • peaked
  • penetrant
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • permeating
  • pervasive
  • piercing
  • piked
  • poin
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • prickly
  • pronged
  • puncturing
  • pungent
  • quick-witted
  • razor-sharp
  • restrained
  • restricted
  • rimmed
  • ringed
  • rounded
  • sagittal
  • sagittate
  • salient
  • sardonic
  • satirical
  • scratching
  • serrated
  • sharp
  • sharp-cornered
  • sharp-edged
  • sharpened
  • shooting
  • shrill
  • silhouetted
  • sketched
  • skirted
  • spiked
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spiny
  • splintery
  • stabbing
  • stinging
  • stoned
  • strong
  • stropped
  • surrounded
  • tapered
  • tapering
  • tart
  • thorny
  • tined
  • tipped
  • traced
  • trenchant
  • trimmed
  • unblunted
  • walled
  • whetted
  • zoned

Antonyms for edged

  • blunt
  • blunted
  • buffed
  • burnished
  • dull
  • dulled
  • even
  • flat
  • free
  • glossed
  • idiotic
  • kind
  • level
  • loose
  • mild
  • moderate
  • nice
  • obtuse
  • pointless
  • polished
  • rounded
  • senseless
  • slick
  • smooth
  • smoothed
  • soft
  • soothing
  • stupid
  • sweet
  • unbounded
  • unconfined
  • unintelligent
  • unlimited
  • weak

Meanings of edged

  • verb
    1. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
    2. To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
    3. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
    4. To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
    5. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
    6. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
    7. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
    8. To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
    9. To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
  • adjective
    1. That has a sharp planar surface.
    2. Followed by with: Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.

Example Sentences

  • The knife edged along the cutting board as she sliced the vegetables.
  • Darkness edged closer as the sun dipped below the horizon.
  • His voice edged with frustration as he struggled to explain the concept.
  • The team edged out their opponents in a thrilling overtime victory.
  • Fear edged into her heart as she heard the strange noises in the abandoned house.

On this page you'll find 193 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to edged, such as: acicular, aciculate, aciculated, acid, acuate, acuminate, acuminous.

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Related Words

daggerlike

jabbing

  • bayoneting
  • bayonetting
  • clawlike
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dirking
  • edged
  • edgy
  • gimleting
  • goring
  • ground
  • harpooning
  • honed
  • impaling
  • jagged
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • knifing
  • lacerating
  • lancing
  • pecking
  • perforating
  • picking
  • piercing
  • piking
  • pinking
  • pinpricking
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • poking
  • poniarding
  • pricking
  • pronging
  • punching
  • puncturing
  • quilling
  • riddling
  • running through
  • scratching
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • skewering
  • slicing
  • spearing
  • spikey
  • spiking
  • spiky
  • spindling
  • spitting
  • stabbing
  • sticking
  • stropped
  • thrusting
  • transfixing
  • transpiercing
  • trenchant
  • whetted

keen

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • Einstein
  • OK
  • accentuated
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • acid
  • acute
  • adequate
  • aggravated
  • agog
  • agonizing
  • alert
  • all right
  • almighty
  • ambitious
  • amenable
  • anguish
  • animate
  • animated
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • appetent
  • apt
  • ardent
  • astute
  • athirst
  • avid
  • awesome
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • bawl
  • bay
  • beautiful
  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • better
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bleat
  • blistering
  • blubber
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brainy
  • brave
  • breathless
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • bully
  • bumper
  • canny
  • capital
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • caustic
  • cavil
  • cerebral
  • champing at the bit
  • choice
  • chomping at the bit
  • classic
  • classical
  • clawlike
  • clear
  • clever
  • complain
  • complaint
  • concentrated
  • cool
  • corking
  • corrosive
  • covetous
  • crab
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • crafty
  • craving
  • crazy
  • creative
  • cri de coeur
  • croak
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dandy
  • decent
  • deep
  • deepened
  • delicate
  • deplore
  • desirous
  • devoted
  • discerning
  • discriminating
  • disposed
  • divine
  • dolor
  • dope
  • down
  • dreadful
  • dying to
  • dynamite
  • eager
  • earnest
  • ebullient
  • edged
  • edgy
  • educated
  • emphasized
  • engaged
  • enhanced
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • erudite
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • excited
  • excruciating
  • exhaustive
  • explosive
  • exquisite
  • extreme
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fast
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • ferocious
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fierce
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • fond of
  • four-star
  • foxy
  • fret
  • frightful
  • frontline
  • furious
  • fuss
  • game
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • geeked
  • genial
  • ghastly
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • glad
  • gone
  • good
  • grand
  • great
  • greedy
  • grief
  • grieving
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • groan
  • groovy
  • grouch
  • ground
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • gung ho
  • gung-ho
  • hair-trigger
  • hand-wringing
  • hankering
  • happy
  • hard
  • harsh
  • heady
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heavenly
  • heavy
  • heavy-duty
  • heightened
  • hellacious
  • hepped up
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • highbrow
  • holler
  • honed
  • hopped-up
  • hot
  • howl
  • hung up
  • hungry
  • hype
  • hyperacute
  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersensitive
  • immense
  • impassioned
  • impatient
  • incisive
  • inclined
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • intense
  • intensified
  • intensive
  • intent
  • interested
  • inveigh
  • inventive
  • invigorating
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • jim-dandy
  • judicious
  • juiced
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • knifelike
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • kvetch
  • lacerating
  • lament
  • lamentation
  • learned
  • literate
  • lively
  • logical
  • longing
  • lovely
  • magnified
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • maunder
  • mean
  • moan
  • mourning
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • neat
  • needlelike
  • nifty
  • nimble
  • nippy
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • nuts
  • observant
  • obsessed
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • outcry
  • oversensitive
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfervid
  • perspicacious
  • phat
  • piercing
  • pining
  • plaint
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • precise
  • premium
  • prickly
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • profound
  • protest
  • prudent
  • pumped
  • quality
  • quibble
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • radical
  • raring
  • rational
  • raw
  • razor-sharp
  • ready
  • reasonable
  • receptive
  • regret
  • repine
  • resourceful
  • restive
  • restless
  • righteous
  • rigorous
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • sardonic
  • satirical
  • satisfactory
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • scratching
  • scream
  • screech
  • select
  • sensational
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • sharp as a tack
  • sharp-witted
  • sharpened
  • shrewd
  • shriek
  • shrill
  • skilled
  • slick
  • smart
  • smarting
  • snappy
  • sob
  • solicitous
  • sorrow
  • sorrowing
  • sound
  • special
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spirited
  • splendid
  • sprightly
  • squall
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stabbing
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stew
  • stinging
  • stoked
  • stressed
  • strong
  • stropped
  • subtle
  • suffering
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • supersensitive
  • supersmart
  • swell
  • tart
  • tears
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • tingling
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • trained
  • trenchant
  • ultrasmart
  • ululate
  • unblunted
  • unreluctant
  • unsurpassed
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • violent
  • vivacious
  • voracious
  • wail
  • warm
  • weeping
  • well-read
  • whetted
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • whiz
  • wild
  • willing
  • wily
  • wise
  • wizard
  • woe
  • wonderful
  • worry
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yell
  • yelp
  • yowl
  • zealous

lacerating

  • amputating
  • anatomizing
  • bruising
  • butchering
  • carving
  • chipping
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chopping
  • clawlike
  • cleaving
  • crosscutting
  • cutting
  • cutting off
  • daggerlike
  • dicing
  • dissecting
  • edged
  • edgy
  • gashing
  • goring
  • ground
  • hacking
  • hacksawing
  • haggling
  • honed
  • incising
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • mangling
  • mincing
  • notching
  • piercing
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • rending
  • ripping
  • riving
  • sawing
  • scissoring
  • scratching
  • sectioning
  • severing
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • shearing
  • slashing
  • slicing
  • slitting
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • splitting
  • stabbing
  • stropped
  • tearing
  • trenchant
  • whetted
  • wounding

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