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Knifelike

adjective

Cutting or able to cut as if with a knife.

Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions. Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp. "Incisive comments" , "Icy knifelike reasoning" , "As sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang" , "Penetrating insight" , "Frequent penetrative observations"

Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument. Synonyms: cutting, keen, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing. "Keen winds" , "Knifelike cold" , "Piercing knifelike pains" , "Piercing cold" , "Piercing criticism" , "A stabbing pain" , "Lancinating pain"

Having a sharp or distinct edge.

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"Knifelike" Quotes from Famous Books

... against the corral post, looking out over the wide expanse of the prairie round about. "Are those our antelope out there, Lucy?" she asked, pointing out with care the few tiny objects, thin and knifelike, crowned with short black forking tips, which showed up against the sky line on a distant ridge. "I think they must be. I haven't noticed ...

— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough

... down the laboratory, trying to shut out of his own sight the things he had seen when the bullets of his own aiming literally splashed into the living flesh of men. He had seen Ragged Men disemboweled by those spinning, knifelike projectiles. He had turned a part of the mad world of that other dimension into a shambles, and he did not regret it because he had saved Evelyn, but he wanted to shut out the horror of seeing what he ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various

Words linked to "Knifelike" : perceptive, distinct