WOLFLIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wolflike mean? 

• WOLFLIKE (adjective)
  The adjective WOLFLIKE has 1 sense:

1. resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf

  Familiarity information: WOLFLIKE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOLFLIKE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

wolfish; wolflike

Context example:

wolfish rapacity

Pertainym:

wolf (any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs)

 Context examples 

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 and through him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)