savage meaning and definition

SAVAGE noun

Definition of savage (noun)

1. a member of an uncivilized people
   • synonyms: barbarian
2. a cruelly rapacious person
   • synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf

SAVAGE verb

Definition of savage (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"
   • synonyms: blast, crucify, pillory

SAVAGE adjective

Definition of savage (adjective)

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"
   • synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious
2. wild and menacing
   • "a pack of feral dogs"
   • synonyms: feral, ferine
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"
   • synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild
4. marked by extreme and violent energy
   • "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
   • synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious