'Wolfish' definitions:
Definition of 'wolfish'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity" [syn: wolflike, wolfish]
adjective
Definition of 'Wolfish'
From: GCIDE
- Wolfish \Wolf"ish\, a. Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs. [1913 Webster] -- {Wolf"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Wolf"ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wolfish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- animal,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- beastly,
- bestial,
- bloodsucking,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- canine,
- cannibalistic,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- dog-hungry,
- doggy,
- Draconian,
- empty,
- extortionate,
- famished,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- foxlike,
- foxy,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- grim,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hellish,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- lupine,
- murderous,
- parasitic,
- peckish,
- pinched with hunger,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- sharkish,
- sharp-set,
- slavering,
- starved,
- starving,
- subhuman,
- Tartarean,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- unfilled,
- unhuman,
- vicious,
- voracious,
- vulpine,
- vulturine,
- vulturous