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What is the adjective for wives?

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

wifeless
  1. having no wife; unmarried or celibate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Charlotte enters Maggie's household and comes to the attention of the wifeless Adam Verver, who proposes to her.”
      “I have been rendered wifeless by the Pandavs and therefore I want Panchali, the wife of the Pandavs.”
      “On Christmas Eve, Ralph invited all of the wifeless sailors who hadn't any place better to go over to his house for a good time.”
wifey
  1. Of, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “These men are actively looking for a wifey woman.”
wifely
  1. Of, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The judges accepted Karen Parlour's argument that her wifely discipline had helped her ex-husband's success on the field.”
      “Certainly he irritates her and she is consistently stressed and crabby around him, resenting her wifely role.”
      “I wonder whether wifely cynicism about a husband's mild illness or impermanent injury doesn't have a lot to do with fear.”
wiveless
  1. Obsolete form of wifeless.
wively
  1. Obsolete form of wifely.
wifelike
  1. Resembling a wife.
  2. Synonyms:
wifelier
wifeliest
wived
wiving
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