Meanings
comparative more wolflike · superlative most wolflike
- Wolfish (all senses); lupine.
And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries through him.
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 62
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveresembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*wĺ̥kʷos
- Proto-Germanic*wulfaz
- Proto-West Germanic*wulf
- Old Englishwulf
- Middle Englishwolf
- Englishwolf
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishwolflike
From wolf + -like. Piecewise doublet of lupuslike.
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