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FISHY
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Irregular inflected forms: fishier , fishiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not as expected
Example:
suspicious behavior
Synonyms:
fishy; funny; shady; suspect; suspicious
Classified under:
Similar:
questionable (subject to question)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or resembling fish
Example:
the soup had a fishy smell
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)
Derivation:
fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills)
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