savage
1. a member of an uncivilized people (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
barbarian
• Derivationally related forms:
barbarian (for: barbarian)
• Hypernyms:
primitive, primitive person
• Hyponyms:
cannibal, man-eater, anthropophagus, anthropophagite, headhunter,
head-shrinker, hunter-gatherer, Vandal
• Instance Hyponyms:
Odoacer, Odovacar, Odovakar
2. a cruelly rapacious person
• Syn:
beast, wolf, brute, wildcat
• Hypernyms:
attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
1. attack brutally and fiercely
• Derivationally related forms:
savagery
• Hypernyms:
assail, assault, set on, attack
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. criticize harshly or violently
- The press savaged the new President
- The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
• Syn:
blast, pillory, crucify
• Hypernyms:
knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering (Freq. 6)
- 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
• Similar to:
inhumane
• Derivationally related forms:
viciousness (for: vicious), savageness, cruelness (for: cruel), brutality (for: brutal), barbarousness (for: barbarous)
2. without civilizing influences (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Similar to:
noncivilized, noncivilised
• Derivationally related forms:
wild (for: wild), wildness (for: wild), savageness, barbarity (for: barbaric), barbarian (for: barbarian)
3. wild and menacing (Freq. 1)
- a pack of feral dogs
• Syn:
feral, ferine
• Similar to:
wild, untamed
• Derivationally related forms:
savageness
4. marked by extreme and violent energy
- a ferocious beating
- fierce fighting
- a furious battle
• Syn:
ferocious, fierce, furious
• Similar to:
violent
• Derivationally related forms:
savageness, furiousness (for: furious), fierceness (for: fierce), ferociousness (for: ferocious), ferocity (for: ferocious)
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