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wolfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective wolfish has 2 senses
- wolfish(a = adj.pert) wolflike - resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity"
- wolfish(s = adj.all) edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
CIDE DICTIONARY
wolfish, a.
Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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
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