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What is the adjective for husbands?

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

husbandly
  1. Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
  2. (obsolete) Pertaining to a husbandman or husbandry.
  3. (obsolete) Frugal; economical.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. married, marital, matrimonial, nuptial, conjugal, connubial, spousal, wifely
  5. Examples:
      6. “It was Meriel who made the arrangements, and Pierre kept checking up on her in an irritable, husbandly way.”
      “Clare came in, embraced his wife in true, orthodox, husbandly fashion, and then presented to her his cousin.”
      “They put to rest the dominant image of absolute sexual celibacy and husbandly devotion to overseas wives.”
husbandable
  1. Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
hubby
  1. (US) Full of hubs or protuberances.
husbandlike
  1. Resembling a husband.
husbandless
  1. Without a husband.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unmarried, single, unattached, unwed, free, bachelor, sole, spouseless, partnerless, eligible, separated, unwedded, divorced, available, wifeless, widowed, spinster, unhitched, celibate, maiden, chaste, uncoupled, virgin, footloose and fancy free, on the shelf, young, free and single, left on the shelf, lone, maidenly, unengaged, unbetrothed, uncommitted, alone, by oneself, without a husband, without a wife, on your own, not going out with anyone, without a partner, virginal, nunlike, companionless, nunnish, monklike, monkish, unloved, monastic, unescorted, by yourself, with no ties … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She confirmed that belief years later, she wrote, when she and a female friend took their young children on a husbandless vacation.”
      “In this age of easy divorces a husbandless mother attracts little attention.”
      “Moreover, women with that kind of money of their own were too good a catch to be left husbandless into their twenties.”
husbanded
  1. (economics) Conserved.
hubbier
  1. comparative form of hubby: more hubby
hubbiest
  1. superlative form of hubby: most hubby
husbanding
  1. present participle of husband
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stockpiling, hoarding, storing, saving, preserving, conserving, reserving, budgeting, safeguarding, putting by, putting aside, laying in, using sparingly, economizing on, using economically, managing thriftily, saving for a rainy day, garnering, stashing, laying by, squirreling away, stashing away, accumulating, laying up, salting away, collecting, treasuring, caching, stowing, putting away, storing up, stowing away, amassing, gathering, squirreling, laying away, setting aside, keeping, hiving, stocking up on, putting to one side, piling up, heaping up, retaining, holding, depositing, maintaining, assembling, banking, hiding … more
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