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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
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 […]
There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.
Use knife-coloured when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Knife-coloured means Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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 […]
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