Wolfish \Wolf"ish\, a.
Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a
wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
[1913 Webster] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wolfish
adj 1: resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic)
of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity"
[syn: wolflike]
2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
ravening, ravenous, voracious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "wolfish":
Draconian, Tartarean, 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, 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, truculent,
unchristian, uncivilized, unfilled, unhuman, vicious, voracious,
vulpine, vulturine, vulturous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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