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Defenition of the word savage

    • Defenition of the word savage

      • Living outside of civilized societies.
      • A person living an uncivilized life, in an original state viewed from a standpoint of the development of mankind from their infestation til today, having had no education in the narrow sense of modern civilisation's education.
      • Marked by extreme and violent energy.
      • 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"
      • (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"
      • a cruelly rapacious person
      • wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
      • marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
      • criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"
      • a member of an uncivilized people
      • criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
      • attack brutally and fiercely
      • (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"
      • criticize harshly or violently
      • without civilizing influences
      • (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
      • wild and menacing
      • marked by extreme and violent energy

    Synonyms for the word savage

      • barbarian
      • barbaric
      • barbarous
      • beast
      • brutal
      • brute
      • cruel
      • fell
      • feral
      • ferocious
      • fierce
      • furious
      • roughshod
      • uncivilized
      • vicious
      • wild
      • wildcat
      • wolf

    Similar words in the savage

      • inhumane
      • noncivilised
      • noncivilized
      • untamed
      • violent
      • wild

    Hyponyms for the word savage

      • anthropophagite
      • anthropophagus
      • cannibal
      • head-shrinker
      • headhunter
      • hunter-gatherer
      • man-eater
      • Odoacer
      • Odovacar
      • Odovakar
      • Vandal

    Hypernyms for the word savage

      • aggressor
      • assail
      • assailant
      • assault
      • assaulter
      • attack
      • attacker
      • criticise
      • criticize
      • knock
      • pick apart
      • primitive
      • primitive person
      • set on
      • surname

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