Synonyms for cutting-edge

Grammar : Adj, noun

Top 10 synonyms for cutting-edge

Other synonyms for the word cutting-edge

Définition of cutting-edge

Origin : also cutting-edge, 1825 in the literal sense (often at first with reference to plows); figurative sense is from 1964.

As in innovative : adj creative
As in modern : adj new, up-to-date
As in new : adj recent, fresh
As in ultramodern : adj up-to-date
As in latter-day : adj modern
As in advanced : adj ahead in position, time, manner
As in current : adj contemporary; common
As in groundbreaking : adj pioneering
As in cutting edge : noun leading position
As in forefront/foreground : noun prominence

Example sentences :

“Makes you feel like using a phone is a really futuristic, cutting-edge activity,” he said.
Extract from : « Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town » by Cory Doctorow

The cutting-edge should descend upon a strip of copper inserted in the iron, to prevent it from being dulled.
Extract from : « Sheep, Swine, and Poultry » by Robert Jennings

The bearing brackets for the hydraulic jacks were attached, as at the south shaft, to the inside of the cutting-edge brackets.
Extract from : « Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 » by James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard

Bear in mind that the shape of the cut made by the plane will be a reversed copy of the shape of the cutting-edge.
Extract from : « Woodworking for Beginners » by Charles Gardner Wheeler

Try to grind squarely across the chisel—that is, to have the cutting-edge at right angles to the lengthways edge of the tool.
Extract from : « Woodworking for Beginners » by Charles Gardner Wheeler

The cutting-edge of the plane thus being at right angles with the surface of the board, the edge will be planed squarely across.
Extract from : « Woodworking for Beginners » by Charles Gardner Wheeler

The cutting-edge of the maxilla is nearly straight, and there is no tooth in the posterior half of the maxilla.
Extract from : « Extinct Birds » by Walter Rothschild

Antonyms for cutting-edge

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