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werewolfish

werewolfish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a werewolf.

Adjective

werewolfish (comparative more werewolfish, superlative most werewolfish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a werewolf.
    • When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 259

Forms of werewolfish

comparativemore werewolfish
superlativemost werewolfish
alternative formwerewolvish

Origin of werewolfish

From werewolf + -ish.

Questions about werewolfish

What does werewolfish mean?
Werewolfish means resembling or characteristic of a werewolf.
What part of speech is werewolfish?
Werewolfish is an adjective.

Words near werewolfish in the dictionary

  1. werewolf syndrome
  2. werewolfdom
  3. werewolfery
  4. werewolfess
  5. werewolfesses
  6. werewolfish
  7. werewolfism
  8. werewolflike
  9. werewolfy
  10. werewolves
  11. werewolvish

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