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What is the adjective for ratcheting?

What's the adjective for ratcheting? Here's the word you're looking for.

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

ratchetlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a ratchet.
ratchety
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a ratchet
  2. Examples:
    1. “The parking brake pivoted with well-calibrated resistance and no ratchety noise.”
      “And there's a void where a dance beat would go, a hollow bordered by sporadic ratchety sounds up above and, far below, skulking bass lines and sporadic kick-drum thuds, with hazy sustained electronics in between.”
      “But the literal mainsprings of the music are in a pair of music boxes that plink at various speeds, with ratchety sounds as they are being rewound.”
ratchet
  1. (US, slang) ghetto (unseemly and indecorous)
ratcheted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ratchet
  2. Synonyms:
ratcheting
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