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What is the adjective for shelf?

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

shelfy
  1. (obsolete) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
  2. (obsolete) Full of strata of rock.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. shelvy
shelved
  1. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves.
  2. Postponed.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. postponed, delayed, adjourned, deferred, suspended, intermitted, prorogued, tabled, scrubbed, held over, on ice, on hold, put off, on the back burner, up in the air, halted, interrupted, stalled, prolonged, protracted, remanded, retarded, pigeonholed, temporized, temporised, put back, on the shelf, staved off, in waiting, held up, pushed back, immobilized, stuck, immobilised, weather-bound, icebound, fogbound, snowbound, stranded, stormbound, late, tardy, overdue, behind, hindered, slowed, behind schedule, caught up … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Let's delve into the shelved plans to convert the former railway line to a cycle route.”
shelfworthy
  1. Good enough to be kept or displayed on a shelf.
  2. Examples:
      3. “All materials must be shelfworthy for deposit at the SRLF. Volumes may be boxed or enclosed in archival containers if necessary.”
      “On the other hand the small, individual ones, especially those shaped as fruits, pagodas, cottages etc., though eminently shelfworthy, are very expensive.”
shelflike
  1. Resembling a shelf or some aspect of one.
shelving
  1. sloping steeply
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dilatory, delaying, stalling, dallying, deferring, dilly-dallying, postponing, procrastinating, tabling, temporising, temporizing, time-wasting, dawdling, Fabian, lingering, loitering, tarrying, cunctative, moratory, putting off … more
shelvy
  1. (of rock, ice, etc.) Having shelves.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shelfy
  3. Examples:
      4. “Swansea aren't going down without a fight at the Etihad and Pantilimon has to be on hand to twice deny Jonjo Shelvy from range.”
      “Shelvy brings the ball down and lashes it goal wards but it's always rising and Szczesny watches it over.”
      “Hernandez's cross goes long towards Rangel', whose volley flashes across goal but evades Shelvy and Bony.”
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