About The Word Savage
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Savage
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What's The Definition Of Savage?
[n] a cruelly rapacious person
[n] a member of an uncivilized people [adj] 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" [adj] (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" [adj] wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog" [adj] marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [v] criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [v] attack brutally and fiercely Synonyms | Synonyms for Savage: barbarian | barbarian | barbaric | barbarous | beast | brutal | brute | crucify | cruel | fell | feral | ferocious | fierce | furious | inhumane | noncivilised | noncivilized | pillory | roughshod | uncivilised | uncivilized | untamed | vicious | violent | wild | wildcat | wolf Related Terms | Find terms related to Savage: See Also | aggressor | anthropophagite | anthropophagus | assail | assailant | assault | assaulter | attack | attacker | cannibal | criticise | criticize | headhunter | head-shrinker | hunter-gatherer | man-eater | Odoacer | Odovacar | Odovakar | pick apart | primitive | primitive person | set on | Vandal Savage In Webster's Dictionary \Sav"age\ (?; 48), a. [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; 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. To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. --Southey. |
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