Savage
['sævɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a member of an uncivilized people.
(verb.) criticize harshly or violently; 'The press savaged the new President'; 'The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage'.
(verb.) attack brutally and fiercely.
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
(a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
(a.) Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
(a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
(n.) A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
(n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
(v. t.) To make savage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Uncultivated (as a forest), wild, rough, sylvan.[2]. Uncivilized (like an inhabitant of the woods), untaught, rude, barbarous, unpolished, bearish.[3]. Untamed, fierce, ferocious, rapacious, ravenous, ferine, sanguinary, blood-thirsty.[4]. Inhuman, brutal, brutish, brute, cruel, fell, remorseless, pitiless, unmerciful, ruthless, merciless, heathenish, relentless, hard-hearted, sanguinary, bloody, vandalic.
n. Barbarian.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ferocious, ferine, wild, uncultivated, untamed, untaught, uncivilized,unpolished, rude, brutish, brutal, heathenish, barbarous, cruel, fierce,inhuman, truculent, pitiless, merciless, murderous, violent, malevolent
ANT:Mild, docile, domesticated, tame, tractable, meek, timid, shrinking,cultivated, tamed, taught, civilized, educated, refined, Christianized,polished, humane, generous, chivalrous, merciful, clement, forbearing, courtly,subdued, self-controlled
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Definition
adj. wild: uncivilised: fierce: cruel: brutal: (her.) nude: naked.—n. a human being in a wild state: a brutal fierce or cruel person: a barbarian.—v.t. and v.i. to make savage to play the savage.—n. Sav′agedom a savage state: savages collectively.—adv. Sav′agely.—ns. Sav′ageness; Sav′agery fierceness: ferocity: wild growth of plants; Sav′agism.
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Examples
- Grin away,' said Sikes, replacing the poker, and surveying him with savage contempt; 'grin away. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There is not a savage or barbaric race to-day that is not held in a net of such tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A naked savage found himself in the greatest danger. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Father of all in every age, in every clime adored By saint, by savage and by sage, Jehovah, Jove or Lord. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Are they savage? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but an European. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Nothing more they found, and it was a thoroughly awed and frightened group of savages which huddled around their king a few moments later. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He neither speaks nor understands any European tongue--and his ornaments and weapons are those of the West Coast savages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But, _I_ mistaken on a point that has caused me more smart in my breast than a flight of savages' arrows could have done! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Many of these savages were cannibals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- O, you are too relentless--there's a limit to the cruelty of savages! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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