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Type Words
Synonyms barbarian
Type of primitive person, primitive
Has types cannibal, head-shrinker, headhunter, hunter-gatherer, man-eater, anthropophagite, vandal, anthropophagus
Type Words
Synonyms barbarian, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild
Derivation savageness


a savage people.
Type Words
Synonyms beast, brute, wildcat, wolf
Type of assaulter, aggressor, attacker, assailant
Type Words
Synonyms ferocious, fierce, furious
Derivation savageness
Type Words
Synonyms barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious
Derivation savageness


a savage slap.
Type Words
Synonyms blast, crucify, pillory
Type of knock, criticise, criticize, pick apart


The press savaged the new President.
Type Words
Synonyms feral, ferine
Derivation savageness
Type Words
Type of attack, set on, assail, assault
Derivation savagery

Examples of savage

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What's more, the profit explosion wasn't just the result of savage cost-cutting.
From the businessweek.com
Savage gang warfare is intercut with candy floss and penny-in-the-slot machines.
From the economist.com
In one savage thrust, Mount McKinley had almost doubled its total recorded toll.
From the time.com
Savage also faces a felony charge of failing to register in Alabama as an agent.
From the al.com
Savage found the overrepresented receptor in 15 of 20 mice with prostate cancer.
From the sciencedaily.com
Even the poisonous scorpion cannot escape the savage monster's little pink paws.
From the newscientist.com
The prospects for 2010 are brighter-hardly difficult after so savage a downturn.
From the economist.com
Video cameras then were unwittingly in place to capture the second savage crash.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Savage had started Omaha's first two games but has been slowed by a back injury.
From the omaha.com
More examples
  • A member of an uncivilized people
  • Attack brutally and fiercely
  • Barbarous: (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"
  • Beast: a cruelly rapacious person
  • Criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
  • Feral: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs"
  • Savage was a heavy metal band from Suffern, New York.
  • Thomas Staughton Savage (1804-1880) was an American Protestant clergyman, missionary, physician and naturalist. Born June 7, 1804 in Cromwell, Connecticut, died December 27, 1880 in Rinebeck, New York. First marriage to Susan A. ...
  • Savage is a passenger rail station on the MARC Camden Line between Washington, DC and Baltimore's Camden Station. ...