wolflike
- adjective
- /ˈwʊlfˌlaɪk/
:
similar a un lobo
- He looked old and fragile that day with his stringy hair and his wolflike, limping gait.
Examples
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During the hunt, the wolves exhibited a wolflike cunning, carefully planning their approach.
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And she smiled at me again, a wolflike baring of her big teeth.
Fiction book (1998) -
She immediately starts pacing and circling the apartment, wolflike.
Fiction book (1999) -
He identifies amorous melancholia with lycanthropy... ...a disease that induces wolflike behaviour in its victims.
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Montage culminates with a low-angle shot of Frida's silhouette, with wolflike features, howling in front of a full moon.
Fiction book (1999) -
The dog moved with a wolflike grace as it stalked through the forest.
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She had a wolflike appearance, with sharp features and a piercing gaze.
Synonyms
3
6.5
Cruel and showing no care for other people like an animal
1
6.9
Looking or acting like a wolf, often in a threatening way
Having the look or behavior of a wolf, like a werewolf in stories
Antonyms
How Wolf-like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wolflike comes from the word wolf and the ending -like, where wolf is the animal and -like means 'similar to', as in childlike or lifelike. So to call someone or something wolflike is to say it looks or acts like a wolf — for example 'sharp', 'wild', or 'ready to hunt'.