Savage
Meaning of Savage
adjective
- (of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.
packs of savage dogs roamed the streets
- (of something bad or negative) very great; severe.
the decision was a savage blow for the town
- (of a person or group) primitive and uncivilized.
a savage race
- a brutal or vicious person.
the mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages
- a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.
- a representation of a bearded and semi-naked man with a wreath of leaves.
- (especially of a dog or wild animal) attack ferociously and maul.
police are rounding up dogs after a girl was savaged
Middle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.
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Hyphenation of Savage
Sav-age
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- Savage is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Savage synonyms
Meaning barbarous:
barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious
Meaning feral:
Meaning barbarian:
barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, wild
Meaning ferocious:
Meaning beast:
Meaning pillory:
Meaning not domesticated or otherwise controlled:
Meaning not domesticated:
Meaning (of an animal) preying naturally on others:
Meaning (of a ferocious wild animal) extremely hungry and hunting for prey:
Meaning (of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense:
Meaning causing overwhelming disappointment or embarrassment:
Meaning highly destructive or damaging:
Meaning causing a person to become unable to walk or move properly:
Meaning extremely bad or serious:
Meaning very bad or unpleasant:
Meaning causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious:
Meaning extremely serious or urgent:
Meaning involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering:
Meaning involving calamity; catastrophic or disastrous:
Meaning disastrous or destructive:
Meaning (of a living human being, often in contrast to a divine being) subject to death:
Meaning sufficient to cause death:
Meaning causing death:
Meaning relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something:
Meaning not having or showing an enlightened outlook:
Meaning relating to heathens:
Meaning offensively impolite or bad-mannered:
Meaning an inhumanly cruel or wicked person:
Meaning a cruel or terrifying person:
Meaning a cruel, evil, or unmanageable person:
Meaning a person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain or humiliation on others:
Meaning a person without human attributes or civilizing influences, especially someone who is very cruel, violent, or repulsive:
Meaning a person who eats the flesh of other human beings:
Meaning (of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing:
Meaning criticize or oppose fiercely and publicly:
Meaning tear or make deep cuts in (flesh or skin):
Meaning scratch or tear something with the claws or the fingernails:
Meaning (of a person or animal) use the teeth to cut into or through something:
Meaning inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on:
Meaning destroy or severely damage by tearing or crushing:
Meaning (of a dog) chase and attack (livestock, especially sheep):
Savage antonyms
Meaning (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated:
Meaning at an advanced stage of social and cultural development:
Anagrams of Savage
Words that rhyme with Savage
vage, Avage, antisavage, autolavage, cleavage, demisavage, dissavage, esclavage, galravage, gastrogavage, gastrolavage, gastrostogavage, gastrostolavage, gavage, gillravage, gilravage, gulravage, havage, lavage, pavage, presavage, ravage, savage, scavage, semisavage, stravage, unsavage, chevage, arrivage, chivage, drivage, estivage, rivage, resalvage, salvage, selvage, sylvage, Colovage, Lovage, lovage, carvage, servage, cuvage
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