Thesaurus / knifelike
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MOST RELEVANT
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
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Allen moved and cried out in a knifelike agony, and a flicker of suffering passed over his father's face.
THE HAPPY ENDJOSEPH HERGESHEIMER
Then, raising the foot, she brought it sharply down, and the knifelike hoof cut through the ice as though it were paper.
CONNIE MORGAN IN THE LUMBER CAMPSJAMES B. HENDRYX
Beneath the crust, which cut knifelike, it was wet and soggy, so they emerged saturated.
It was now easy for him to rip with those knifelike claws on his hind feet.
THE GRIZZLY KINGJAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
Neuralgias are recurrent knifelike facial and head pains that can last for days and even months.
WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE TO TURNSTEVEN J. BARTLETT
It had powerful fanged jaws and its eight feet were armed with knifelike, disemboweling claws.
CAT AND MOUSERALPH WILLIAMS
He had seen Ragged Men disemboweled by those spinning, knifelike projectiles.
Then he dipped instantly and struck downward with his knifelike, clutching talons.
HOOF AND CLAWCHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
WORDS RELATED TO KNIFELIKE
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
- acute
- agonizing
- arctic
- biting
- bitter
- blaring
- cold
- deafening
- earsplitting
- excruciating
- exquisite
- fierce
- freezing
- frosty
- high
- high-pitched
- keen
- knifelike
- loud
- numbing
- painful
- penetrating
- powerful
- racking
- raw
- roaring
- severe
- sharp
- shattering
- shooting
- shrill
- stabbing
- stentorian
- stentorious
- thin
- treble
- wintry
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.