Definition of "two-edged" [two•-edged]

• Having two keen edges. (adjective)
• Being such that two contrasting meanings, effects, or interpretations are possible: a two-edged compliment. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
• "I have written in the past about the two-edged sword of social media around the world."
• "That was what made her a two-edged sword, he thought to himself; creative enough to start something like that at the advanced age of twenty-two, impractical enough to start something like that at the advanced age of twenty-two."