Wiktionary
a. Resembling a knife or its effects.
WordNet
adj. cutting or able to cut as if with a knife
having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp]
as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain" [syn: cutting, keen, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating]
having a sharp or distinct edge; "a narrow knifelike profile"
Usage examples of "knifelike".
The knifelike ray laid a silver pathway that could have been seen for miles.
In this cavernous room, its walls wet with the cold that cut knifelike through the rock, scurried the inky minions of the Warlock Lord.
There was the big, hardeyed rancher with the iron-gray hair who thought he was the bull of the woods, and the knifelike man beside him with the careful eyes who would be gunslick and fast as a striking snake.
He was shabby and unkempt, but he wore two guns, the only man in town whom I'd seen wearing two except for the knifelike man in the saloon.
We may therefore conclude that this conical protuberance is a special adaptation for breaking through the ground,** and answers the same end as the knifelike white crest on the summit of the straight cotyledon of the Gramineae.
Its knifelike talons and sharply hooked beak seemed strange somehow, far more threatening than those of any other hawk he had encountered, although even they were not as alien as the bird's bright, glimmering eyes.
But as it did, Niall felt a savage pain in his shoulder and, wrenching himself in the other direction, watched another of the creatures soar off, his own blood staining its knifelike talons.
Frowning, deadly serious lest he make a mistake, the half-wit loped through town, oblivious to hummingbirds whistling around the abundant hollyhocks, casting knifelike glances at shimmering magpies, recoiling almost in pain whenever turkeys, guinea hens, or geese added their shrill gobbles and honks and squeals to the furious canine cacophony that every morning except Saturday (when the Reporter didn't publish) trailed at his heels wherever he went.
There was real pain there, too, a deep, knifelike pain that covered his body with tiny, invisible wounds, intimate and unbearable.
Knifelike wind whistled against his nares, chilling his sinuses, sharpening his mind.
We hovered in the empty space beneath the opening, but all around us in the darkness lurked razoring stone comers, knifelike edges, and deadly spikes.
But the cat’s real weapons were on its front legs: knifelike blades of bone projecting from the front, scintillatingly sharp.
He stopped and circled one of the Messerschmitt 262s, admiring the slim cigar shape of the fuselage, the triangular vertical stabilizer, and the ungainly jet pods that hung from the razor knifelike wings.