savage

Meaning

Adj

1. Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
2. Barbaric; not civilized.
3. Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
4. Fierce and ferocious.
5. Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
6. (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
7. (slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
8. (slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
9. (slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.

Noun

1. A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.
2. An aggressively defiant person.
3. (slang) Someone who speaks in an audacious, hilarious, and often sarcastic manner.
4. (obsolete) A wild and ferocious beast.

Verb

1. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
2. To criticise vehemently.
3. To attack with the teeth.
4. (obsolete) To make savage.

Synonyms

wild

cruel

barbarian

brutal

fierce

ferocious

barbarous

uncivilized

vicious

violent

atrocious

barbaric

feral

furious

merciless

brute

wild man

untamed

inhuman

angry

😠

wicked

harsh

ruthless

uncivilized person

raging

primitive

crude

primitive person

fell

ferine

cruel person

uncivilised

rustic

aboriginal

brutality

roughshod

smashmouth

absurd

beast

beastly

bestial

blast

crucify

cruelness

dangerous

desolate

enemy

evil

heartless

horrible

maul

mercilessness

pillory

primordial

raw

rude

ruthlessness

terror

thug

truculent

unpolished

unruly

villainous

wildcat

wolf

🐺

rude fellow

churl

inhumane

inhumanity

intense

knockabout

loner

lupin

lupine

animalistic

castigate

wilderness

mountaineer

nasty

neat

bear barous

pitiless

primeval

callousness

yard

pristine

bushman

rampant

rapacious

rascal

atavist

riotous

robust

rough

brutish

rubbish

bowelless

boorish

boor

rude person

sassy

severe

singing

stormy

swingeing

tameless

terrible

bad

👎

archaic

tigerish

arboreal

turbulent

boisterous

bloodthirsty

uncooked

uncouth

uncultured

underdone

underived

undomesticated

unfeeling

unmerciful

amok

unrefined

unregulated

unripe

unripened

brainish

untamable

black

vandal

vehement

biting

destructive

devilish

evil-spirited

enraged

big

despicable

cursed

cruelty

condemned

cold-blooded

forester

cold

🥶

green

groovy

gross

claw

beardown

base

hunter

impetuous

Hyphenated as

sav‧age

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsævɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: savage

In summary

From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, savage, untamed”), from Late Latin salvaticus, alteration of Latin silvaticus (“wild"; literally, "of the woods”), from silva (“forest", "grove”).