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What is the adjective for wolf?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs wolf and wolve which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

wolfish
  1. Pertaining to wolves.
  2. Having the characteristics or habits of a wolf.
  3. Fierce; savage; menacing.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “In an instant, she picked it up and jabbed her blade into the wolfish beast. It yelped harshly.”
      “She had this huge wolfish animal next to her who was snarling, and she had the arrow cocked, ready to let fly.”
      “And having eaten with a wolfish hunger, the old man told the story of his resurrection.”
wolven
  1. Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish.
  2. Synonyms:
wolfly
  1. Of, like, or pertaining to a wolf or wolves; lupine.
wolflike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a wolf.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The group relaxed, and Jake grinned his wolflike leer again as he lined up his next shot.”
      “Also known as the Tasmanian tiger, the Thylacinus cynocephalus was a wolflike marsupial with prominent stripes on its back.”
      “Two blocks further away the gas-light showed other parties of excited, wolflike men hastening in pursuit.”
wolfy
wolvish
  1. Archaic spelling of wolfish.
wolfless
  1. Without wolves.
wolfed
wolfing
wolved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wolve
wolving
  1. present participle of wolve
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