🔄 Synonyms of "Wolfish"
8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| esurientnoun | (formal, now often humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager. |
| rapacious | (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious. |
| ravenous | Very hungry. |
| voracious | (of a person or their appetite) Wanting or devouring great quantities of food. |
| raveningnoun | Voracious and greedy. |
| edacious | (literary) Having an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish. |
| gluttonous | Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating. |
| wolflike | Wolfish (all senses); lupine. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Wolfish"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wolflike | Wolfish (all senses); lupine. |
| gluttonous | Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating. |
| voracious | (of a person or their appetite) Wanting or devouring great quantities of food. |
| edacious | (literary) Having an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish. |
| rapacious | (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious. |
| ravening | Voracious and greedy. |
| ravenous | Very hungry. |
| esurient | (formal, now often humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager. |
| lupinenoun | Ravenous. |
| wolvennoun | (fantasy, uncommon) A wolflike being; one who is wolflike in appearance or character. |
| wolfly | Like or characteristic of a wolf; wolflike. |
| faunal | Pertaining to animals. |
| wild | Untamed; not domesticated. |
| lycanthropic | Of or pertaining to lycanthropy. |
| animalistic | In the manner of and/or resembling an animal; |
| wolfian | Of or relating to Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824), German classicist regarded as the founder of modern philology. |
| caninenoun | Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae. |
| faunic | Pertaining to fauna: faunal. |
| zoophobic | Pertaining to or afflicted with zoophobia, the fear of animals. |
| animalnoun | (sciences) Any member of the kingdom Animalia of multicellular organisms that are usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and which derive energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (further distinguishing them from plants). |
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