Dictionary Definition
savage adj
1 (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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious]
3 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" [syn: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
4 marked by extreme and violent energy; "a
ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn:
ferocious, fierce, furious]
Noun
1 a member of an uncivilized people [syn:
barbarian]
Verb
1 attack brutally and fiercely
2 criticize harshly or violently; "The press
savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for
plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: pillory, crucify]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
Translations
Wild, not cultivated
- Norwegian: vill
Barbaric, not civilized
- Norwegian: barbarisk
Fierce and ferocious
- Norwegian: rasende
- Kurdish:
Brutal, vicious or merciless
Noun
- A savage person.
- A defiant person.
Translations
Verb
- To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
- To criticise
vehemently.
- His latest film was savaged by most reviewers.
- In the context of "of an animal": To attack with the teeth
Translations
To criticise vehemently
- Norwegian: slakte
Extensive Definition
Savage may refer to:
- Noble savage, a person uncorrupted by the influences of civilization
- "Savage", pejorative term for a tribal person
Places:
In music and entertainment:
- Michael Savage, the pseudonym used by author, radio host and political commentator Michael Alan Weiner
- The Savage Nation, an American radio show hosted by political commentator Michael Savage
- Savage (album), by Eurythmics
- Savage (rapper), stage name of New Zealand rapper Demetrius Savelio
- Savage, an artistic pseudonym of Italian singer, music composer, and producer Roberto Zanetti
- Savage! (1973 film), a film directed by Cirio H. Santiago
- Savage (film), a 1997 film by Avi Nesher
- Savage (video game), 1988, Firebird Software
- Savage: The Battle for Newerth, a computer game by S2 Games
- Savage 2: A Tortured Soul, a computer game developed by S2 Games
- The Savage Empire, part of the Ultima series by Origin Systems
- The sequel comic series to Invasion!
Other uses:
- Savage Arms, a brand of sporting firearms
- HPI Savage, a 1/8th scale radio controlled monster truck
- S3 Savage, a series of graphics chipsets
- Suzuki LS650 Savage, a motorcycle
- Viscount Savage, a title in the Peerage of England
- SS-13 Savage, the NATO reporting name for the RT-2 intercontinental ballistic missile
- John the Savage, a character in Aldous Huxley's dystopian satire, Brave New World
- Savage (surname)
See also
- Savage Island (disambiguation)
- Savage River (disambiguation)
- The Savages (disambiguation)
savage in German: Savage
savage in French: Savage
savage in Italian: Savage
savage in Dutch: Savage
savage in Polish: Savage
savage in Russian: Savage
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Draconian, Goth, Gothic, Mafioso, Neanderthal, Tartarean, Young Turk,
abrade, abuse, afflict, aggressive, aggrieve, agonize, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagite,
anthropophagous,
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chafe, chauvinist, chauvinistic, check, chip, claw, coldhearted, combative, condemn, contentious, convulse, corrupt, crack, craze, crucify, cruel, cruel-hearted, curse, cut, damage, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, defile, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, deprave, despoil, destroy, destroyer, destructive, devil, devilish, diabolic, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do
evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, do wrong to,
doom, dragon, enemy, enraged, envenom, excruciate, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiend, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, fighting mad,
fire-eater, firebrand,
fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, full of fight, fuming, furious, fury, gall, gash, get into trouble, go on,
goon, gorilla, grim, gunsel, hammer, harass, hardnose, harm, harrow, harsh, hawkish, heartless, hell-raiser,
hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellish, hex, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hopping mad, hostile, hothead, hotspur, hurt, hyena, ill-bred, ill-treat,
ill-use, impair, impale, implacable, impolite, in a rage, incendiary, incise, infect, infernal, infuriate, infuriated, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, injure, internecine, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jinx, kill by inches, kill-crazy,
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hob with, poison,
pollute, prejudice, primeval, primitive, pugnacious, puncture, punish, quarrelsome, rabid, rack, rage, raging, ramp, rampage, rant, ranting, rapacious, rape, rapist, rave, ravenous, raving, raving mad, relentless, rend, revolutionary, riot, rip, roar, roaring mad, rough, rough up, rough-and-ready,
rude, rugged, ruin, run, rupture, ruthless, saber-rattling,
sack, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, scald, scarify, scathe, scorch, scotch, scrape, scrappy, scratch, scuff, shark, sharkish, she-wolf, skin, slash, slaughter, slavering, slit, soldierlike, soldierly, sow chaos, spitfire, sprain, stab, stick, storm, storming, strain, subhuman, taint, tameless, tear, tear around, termagant, terror, terrorist, terrorize, threaten, tiger, tigress, torment, torture, tough, tough guy, traumatize, trigger-happy,
troglodyte, troglodytic, truculent, ugly customer,
unbroken, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undomesticated, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unkempt, unlicked, unmerciful, unpacific, unpeaceful, unpolished, unrefined, unrelenting, unsubdued, untamed, vandal, vandalize, vicious, violate, violent, virago, virulent, vixen, voracious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wild, wild beast, wild man,
witch, wolf, wolfish, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecker, wrench, wring, wrong