wolf-sized

1 4.2

About as big as a wolf

adjective
/wʊlf-saɪzd/

: del tamaño de un lobo

I wasn't expecting the pet to be wolf-sized; it looked just like a small wolf.

Examples

The new dog breed is wolf-sized, resembling a wolf in both appearance and build.
Over the winter, this playful dog had grown wolf-sized, his nature unpredictable.

Fiction book (1995)
The creature in the video was wolf-sized, moving gracefully through the underbrush.

How Big

huge

∞ 1.0

large

10 1.0

wolf-sized

1 4.2

medium-sized

24 2.4

small

3 1.1

tiny

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

wolf-sized positive

wolfier-sized comparative

wolfiest-sized superlative

Morphology

wolf-sized = wolf (transparent) = wolf + sized

Formed by the productive pattern 'X-sized' meaning 'of the size of X', so learners who know 'wolf' and the pattern will understand the meaning.

Etymology

Wolf-sized comes from joining wolf and -sized, which simply means 'the size of a wolf'. So, wolf-sized describes something that is about as big as a wolf.