sauvage

Meaning

Adj

1. wild, untouched, unspoiled, pristine
2. wild, untamed, not domesticated (often used to qualify a wild alternative or pendant for a cultivated plant or domestic animal)
3. feral
4. primitive, uncivilized
5. coarse, unrefined
6. uncontained, anarchic; unregulated; unauthorized
7. asocial, recluse (living in an eccentric, isolated way, not interested in social contact or appealing to others)
8. (obsolete) Amerindian

Noun

1. barbarian, savage
2. hermit, recluse
3. (obsolete) Amerindian
4. an Amerindian language

Concepts

wild

savage

ferocious

barbarian

uncivilized

fierce

rampant

uncivilised

feral

untamed

unsociable

furious

chicory

rough

rude

violent

stray

be wild

strong-willed

brutal

wilderness

fear of strangers

shyness

stranger anxiety

hard

extravagant

uninhibited

backward region

savage land

uncouth

unpolished

wildness

growing wild

aboriginal

heathen

shy

tattered

savages

wild behavior

bushman

bully

ruffian

angry

raging

tempestuous

barbaric

rampantly

blast

crucify

pillory

godforsaken

waste

barbarous

cruel

fell

roughshod

vicious

raving mad

ferine

unbridled

pristine

ethnic

gentile

neo-pagan

pagan

philistine

unchristian

wrathy

Pronounced as (IPA)

/so.vaʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sauvage, salvage, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (“forest”).