|kanəbə|listik, -ēk adjective
1. : addicted or inclined to cannibalism among humans or animals
an inherent cannibalistic tendency in poultry
2.
a. : analogous with or suggestive of the voracity of cannibalism
cannibalistic impulses attendant on teething
a mother's cannibalistic fixation on a son
b. : derived from or akin to cannibalism
the cannibalistic principle of an acquisitive society
3. : given to or exhibiting cannibalism among associates in civilized society
a school of cannibalistic novelists
a view of business as cannibalistic
a chronic and cannibalistic appetite for personalities — Aldous Huxley
4. : performed or involved in the process of cannibalization
5. : orally sadistic