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bleeding-edge

bleeding-edge adjective: of or pertaining to something, such as technology, which is too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; (in a weakened sense) that represents the latest developments in something. Also the alternative form of bleeding edge.

Adjective

bleeding-edge (comparative more bleeding-edge, superlative most bleeding-edge)

  1. (idiomatic) Of or pertaining to something, such as technology, which is too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; (in a weakened sense) that represents the latest developments in something.
    • As you'd expect from a bleeding-edge tablet, it has plenty of other high-end features as well.

Also used as

bleeding-edge is also the alternative form of bleeding edge.

Forms of bleeding-edge

comparativemore bleeding-edge
superlativemost bleeding-edge

Questions about bleeding-edge

What does bleeding-edge mean?
Bleeding-edge means of or pertaining to something, such as technology, which is too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; (in a weakened sense) that represents the latest developments in something.
What part of speech is bleeding-edge?
Bleeding-edge is an adjective.

Words near bleeding-edge in the dictionary

  1. bleeding time test
  2. bleeding time tests
  3. bleeding times
  4. bleeding tooth fungus
  5. bleeding white
  6. bleeding-edge
  7. bleeding-heart
  8. bleeding-heart monkey
  9. bleeding-heart monkeys
  10. bleeding-hearts
  11. bleedingly

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