knifelike

English

Etymology

knife +‎ -like

Adjective

knifelike (comparative more knifelike, superlative most knifelike)

  1. Resembling a knife or its effects.
    The patient reported a knifelike pain in his abdomen.
    • 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
      I hated the man at once. I lost not a moment. I darted my eyes across the table, caught his, and stabbed him with one of those withering knifelike glances that only the descendants of the great can inflict.
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