Wolfish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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