wolfish

comparative more wolfish · superlative most wolfish · alternative wolvish

1. Of, like, or pertaining to a wolf.

   Synonyms: lupine, wolfy, wolflike

   1. Suggestive or characteristic of a wolf.

      a wolfish appetite

      2 more examples

      “[…] Here, Fangs! Fangs!” he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog […]

      1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC

      He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.

      1903 July, Jack London, “The Law of Club and Fang”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 44

      Synonyms: lupine, wolfy, wolflike

2. Fierce; menacing; savage.

   Synonyms: barbaric, barbarous, truculent, animalistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarious, barbarous