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knife-colored

knife-colored is the alternative form of knife-coloured.

Meaning of knife-coloured

Adjective

knife-coloured (comparative more knife-coloured, superlative most knife-coloured)

  1. Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade.
    • Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood. Moon running over the house fronts like a spotlight. When it fell on the willows, they trembled like girls caught in dark corners […]1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96

Forms of knife-colored

comparativemore knife-colored
superlativemost knife-colored

Questions about knife-colored

What is knife-colored the alternative form of?
Knife-colored is the alternative form of knife-coloured.

Words near knife-colored in the dictionary

  1. knife's edge
  2. knife's edges
  3. knife-and-fork
  4. knife-boy
  5. knife-boys
  6. knife-colored
  7. knife-coloured
  8. knife-ear
  9. knife-edge
  10. knife-edge effect
  11. knife-edge effects

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knife-colored (page history and authors); knife-coloured (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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