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What is the adjective for fish?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs fish and fishify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fishy
  1. Of, from, or similar to fish.
  2. Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
  3. (LGBT slang) Of drag queens: appearing feminine.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. fishlike, piscine, piscatorial, piscatory, fishly, ichthyic, of fish, suspicious, dubious, shady, shifty, dodgy, suspect, murky, dark, shonky, disreputable, crooked, underhand, devious, not kosher, not quite right, questionable, doubtful, disputable, debatable, dubitable, queer, doubtable, equivocal, problematical, untrustworthy, problematic, shaky, funny, iffy, uncertain, unreliable, odd, under suspicion, weak, unsound, unsupported, flimsy, unfounded, tenuous, unclear, unsure, undependable, irregular … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “With no fishy smell or taste, it comes in convenient daily-dose packets.”
      “There's something fishy going on here. You can't pull any wool over my eyes.”
      “The film is a stark picture of a not-so-distant imagined future. It is a rather fishy situation considering there is hardly any plankton left.”
fishable
  1. (of a species of fish) Able to be fished legally
  2. (of a lake, pond etc.) Able to be fished in, able to be used for fishing
  3. Examples:
      4. “Likewise, the 1972 Clean Water Act promised that all of our lakes, rivers, and streams would be fishable and swimmable.”
      “Once the river levels were back to a fishable condition, coarse and game anglers experienced some good fishing.”
      “After buying a licence you have hundreds of fishable streams creeks and rivers to fish.”
fishly
  1. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or pertaining to fishes; piscine.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fishlike, piscine, ichthyic, fishy, piscatorial, piscatory, of fish
fishen
  1. (obsolete) Relating to or characteristic of a fish; fishlike
fishish
  1. (rare) Resembling a fish; fishy.
fishlike
  1. Having some characteristics of a fish.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fishy, piscine, piscatorial, piscatory, fishly, ichthyic, of fish
  3. Examples:
      4. “Quick and nimble, fishlike, she glides over rocks, under overhangs and squeezes into narrow openings.”
      “The cuticle may be left feeling extremely rough or in some cases the delicate cuticle fishlike scales may be permanently damaged or burned off.”
      “Despite their fishlike exteriors, ichthyosaurs had to surface to breathe air and they gave birth to live young.”
fishful
  1. Abounding in fish.
fishless
  1. Without fish.
  2. Examples:
      3. “In no time at all the firths were fishless deserts and the sea a cemetery without memorials.”
      “Some of the more remote lakes and streams subsequently reverted to their fishless state.”
      “If we kill the forests, poison the rivers and pollute the air then they inherit a treeless, fishless, asphyxiated world.”
fishier
  1. comparative form of fishy: more fishy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. more fishlike, more piscine, more fishly, shadier, shiftier, dodgier, murkier, darker, shonkier, more suspicious, more dubious, more suspect, more disreputable, more crooked, more underhand, more devious, more unscrupulous, more dishonest, slipperier, more dishonourable, more guileful, more dishonorable, more fraudulent, sneakier, more corrupt, more questionable, snider, more duplicitous, slier, seedier, trickier, more untrustworthy, more unethical, more unprincipled, sketchier, more underhanded, more deceitful, more rogue, benter, more scandalous, craftier, more furtive, sharper, more deceptive, more inglorious, more immoral, more cheating, more cunning, more treacherous, wilier … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But yesterday the tale became even fishier as a third Oban chip shop boss claimed he fried the fish praised by Stein.”
      “What is even fishier is the fact that he happens to be a board member at that institute.”
      “His hugger-mugger death and burial became fishier the more I looked into it.”
fishiest
  1. superlative form of fishy: most fishy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. most fishlike, most piscine, most fishly, shadiest, shiftiest, dodgiest, murkiest, darkest, shonkiest, most suspicious, most dubious, most suspect, most disreputable, most crooked, most underhand, most devious, most unscrupulous, most dishonest, slipperiest, most dishonourable, most guileful, most dishonorable, most fraudulent, sneakiest, most corrupt, most questionable, snidest, most duplicitous, sliest, seediest, trickiest, most untrustworthy, most unethical, most unprincipled, sketchiest, most underhanded, most deceitful, most rogue, bentest, most scandalous, craftiest, most furtive, sharpest, most deceptive, most inglorious, most immoral, most cheating, most cunning, most treacherous, wiliest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Some of the fishiest spots in Florida bays and intracoastal waters are overlooked by flats boat anglers who buzz along in search of skinny-water Valhalla.”
fished
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. took, removed, extracted, pulled, drew, withdrew, extricated, retrieved, confiscated, picked, plucked, pried, wrested, dislodged, displaced, drew out, dug out, hauled out, physically removes, plucked out, pulled out, reaped, reapt, ripped, rooted out, took out, unearthed, uprooted, weeded out, wheedled out, took off, yanked, pluckt, extraught, withdrawn, drawn, taken out, drawn out, taken off, taken, prized, wrung, wrenched, forced, corkscrewed, wringed, wrang, jimmied, twisted, prised … more
fishing
  1. present participle of fish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feeling, fumbling, scrabbling, bumbling, picking, bungling, clawing, floundering, grappling, groping, stumbling, blundering, exploring, poking, rooting, searching, fingering, examining, prying, touching, manipulating, grabbling, handling, feeling blindly … more
fishified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fishify
fishifying
  1. present participle of fishify
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