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What is the adjective for claw?

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

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

clawing
  1. Causing a visceral sensation of panic or terror.
clawfooted
  1. (bathtub) Having decorative feet that resemble claws.
  2. Examples:
    1. “You'll find bedrooms with clawfooted baths and snowy-white bed linen and it's all decorated with New England verve.”
      “And the African clawfooted frog swallows almost anything in front of it, even other frogs.”
clawsome
  1. Characterised or marked by claws
  2. Examples:
    1. “I'm acutely aware that this lovely blond beast, if properly provoked, could rip my lungs out with a single swipe of clawsome paw.”
clawed
  1. having claws (of animals)
clawlike
  1. Resembling a claw
  2. Examples:
    1. “Polaski stalks the stage with confidence, her clawlike hands in a constant state of threatening menace.”
      “His body was desiccated and hardened, his skin shiny and black and taut over his sinews, his arms bent upward, hands grasping, clawlike.”
      “From the deck of a hulking 4,000-ton ship, a giant clawlike device plunges into the waves of the North Atlantic.”
clawless
  1. Having no claws.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She tried to scratch him with her clawless paws, but her attempt was enough to make him draw back.”
      “The Cape clawless otter derives its name from the fact that there are no claws on the digits.”
      “I wanted more of that sensation, and made my demand known by punching at the air with clawless fists atop short, stubby arms.”
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