SAVAGE

barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild

(adjective) without civilizing influences; “barbarian invaders”; “barbaric practices”; “a savage people”; “fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient”-Margaret Meade; “wild tribes”

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

(adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; “a barbarous crime”; “brutal beatings”; “cruel tortures”; “Stalin’s roughshod treatment of the kulaks”; “a savage slap”; “vicious kicks”

feral, ferine, savage

(adjective) wild and menacing; “a pack of feral dogs”

ferocious, fierce, furious, savage

(adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy; “a ferocious beating”; “fierce fighting”; “a furious battle”

beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat

(noun) a cruelly rapacious person

savage, barbarian

(noun) a member of an uncivilized people

savage, blast, pillory, crucify

(verb) criticize harshly or violently; “The press savaged the new President”; “The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage”

savage

(verb) attack brutally and fiercely

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

savage (comparative more savage, superlative most savage)

Wild; not cultivated.

Barbaric; not civilized.

Fierce and ferocious.

Brutal, vicious, or merciless.

(UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.

(Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.

Synonyms: wicked, Thesaurus:excellent

(heraldry) Nude; naked.

Noun

savage (plural savages)

(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.

(figuratively) A defiant person.

Verb

savage (third-person singular simple present savages, present participle savaging, simple past and past participle savaged) (transitive)

To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.

(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.

(of an animal) To attack with the teeth.

(obsolete, transitive) To make savage.

Anagrams

• agaves

Proper noun

Savage

A surname.

An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland.

A suburban city in Scott County, Minnesota; suburb of Minneapolis,.

An unincorporated community in Tate County, Mississippi.

An unincorporated community in Richland County, Montana.

Anagrams

• agaves

Source: Wiktionary

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Sav"age (; 48), a. Etym: [F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. Sylvatic.]

1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. Dryden.

3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners. What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity E. D. Griffin.

4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.

Syn.

– Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See Ferocious.

Sav"age, n.

1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught; uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.

2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.

Sav"age (; 48), v. t.

Definition: To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. South

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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